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Originally Posted by Lt Major Burns apple did, on the switch page. i regret posting this thread. can we close it now? i was in a bad mood  but i'm better now  . i just had a stupid argument with a windows user about the mac/pc debate (started by my first switcher, a girl) after this, and i realised all is well when it is a lot more stable than their boxes. i can run 10 apps and it'll be fine. i don't have to live behind a firewall, and run anti-spy/ad/malware programs weekly, or defrag the HDDs or clean the registry etc.... like anything designed by humans though, human error will surface, in this case, in coding errors, which equate to bugs. and my mac has far fewer of these than xp. not none, but fewer. |
I run Firefox on my Windows PC and I don't have problems with spyware / adware etc. It also depends on the kind of sites that you visit. A lot of viruses nowadays are sent via email so if you use prudent email practice, you should be fine.
With that said though, XP is seriously out of date. It was released in 2001 like OS X but has only had two service packs - both of which were designed to fix bugs and security flaws that shouldn't have been in the OS in the first place. And OS X has advanced a fair deal in that time in comparison.
I tend to hibernate my machine (so technically it's running without restarts) but every few weeks I get a BSOD and have to restart it. It doesn't seem to be comfortable with being on for long periods of time despite the fact that I have enough fans to drown out a jet engine.