Windows is buggy and slow lets buy a Mac

[Nlandas]

He's right though. Nothing useful came after about windows 2000. Personally i'll run xp untill I can't find used hardware that can run it easily, or web browsers drop support with no hack to get them going again.

I'm no Windows fanboy but Windows 7 is a very stable OS and worthy successor to Windows XP. We are working out the kinks with our Novell SuSe Linux network and once finished will be migrating all of our XP boxes to Windows 7.

I'm running it on both of my machines at home and very pleased with the results.

I'd still love to see another Amiga type machine in my lifetime but I'm certainly not going to start buying rotten fruit. I'd rather build a commodity box and install any number of alternative OSs on it. Linspire, Redhat, SuSe, Solaris, AROS, etc., etc., etc.

[Nlandas]

When I need windows, its either 98se, 2k or XP. OS X- very good, I like the UNIX roots of it, the clean design, hate the intel part of it. I trust OS X more than Windoze. I hate that all of my networked windows boxes pick up all the bloatware $hit. I hate Micro$h

@Tone007
These are some fool propaganda things you're saying. Bill Gates may be a nice guy, but Steve Jobs is NOT a tool, he is the master of the Mac Classic B&W. Okay he also pushed the Lisa, but he didn't make MS BOB nor did he screw OS/2 up. You may be a 'doze fanboy, but please state why in an intelligent, non-rantish manner.

I've been running Windows for years and years and I have never, repeat never caught a major virus or Trojan. Minor tracking cookies, etc. is all. Apparently, I'm completely amazing or something. Hold, on I need to open this attachment and click this link that this guy in Namibia just sent me and he'll give me 10 million dollars. D'OH! ;^)

Yes but who could forget NEXT, because no one will ever want a color computer. Steve Jobs is most definitely a tool. A very rich tool but still a tool none the less. Ask Wozniak after he's had a few beers. Commodore missed it's chance, darn you Jack Tramiel, they had the chance to buy Apple.

Then I could have missed the gems
Macs don't get viruses. (That's why we just cleaned several of them from multiple Malware attacks and infected Word docs.)
Macs are easier to use. (Yes, that GUI is so intuitive that users just sit down and immediately know how to use the machine. There is just zero learning curve because the bouncing icons in the Dock just explain everything.)
Macs are better for graphics. (The video cards in the Mac Pros at the time were like 3-4 generations behind the low end commodity DELLs we were buying.)
Macs don't crash. (Yeah, we never see a crash just a friendly note that you should restart the computer. It's not like it's really required or anything; it's just that your Mac needs a little rest.)
Macs are like Cadillac and PeeCees are like Yugo (Uhm, OK, sure.)
and my favorite local classics.....
Macs cost less because they come with all that free built in software so you have to count that too. (Nevermind, you're right - they are so great they walk on water and make the lame walk and the blind see.)

[Nlandas]

Go Windows 7 then.  Mac is crap also.  I know a lot of people don't like MS but lets face it Apple is doing the same crap if not worse.  Drop the Iphone, get an Android, drop the ipod and buy an MP3 player for cheaper that is better, DONT buy an Ipad cause it lacks everything useful to be an actual computer.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjU0K8QPhs

[Nlandas]

Quite frankly Xp like most of Windoze OS's was a bit of a dog at first but over time it's developed and IMHO, one hell of a good OS these days. Sure you get the odd useless errors but everything is easy to work on and is so frugal with it's hardware.

Vista was utter s***e to put it bluntly, but thankfully has been replaced with 7 which I hear isn't a bad OS, though is still power hungry.

NT was another good bit of work from Bill if you ask me.

;^) Bill had little to do with it. Again, I'm not in love with Microsoft but the guys that wrote NT were well versed in OS design. Although they came from a more monolithic though process - IMNSHO.

"Microsoft hired a group of developers from Digital Equipment Corporation led by Dave Cutler to build Windows NT, and many elements of the design reflect earlier DEC experience with Cutler's VMS and RSX-11. The operating system was designed to run on multiple instruction set architectures and multiple hardware platforms within each architecture. The platform dependencies are largely hidden from the rest of the system by a kernel mode module called the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer)." - Wiki