Reply #14: Go to a store and demo one to see how they operate. Judge for yourself. [View All]

[Deja Q]

Compare featured and prices with PCs, though my next PC will be home built and Linux installed.

Personally, because of Steve Jobs' anti-teacher attitude (he's been whining solely because he probably can't get Mac-only contracts into school districts anymore) and how the Mac is nothing more than a PC hardware box with a modified FreeBSD on it, there's little left to "think different" about. (FreeBSD is a free clone of the BSD Unix-like operating system. It is not Linux, though shares the same GUI and some of the Unix philosophies that Linux also uses. Apple took FreeBSD, added some innovations, released it as OS X, and claimed they'd give back to the open source community one day - I need to follow up to see if they've been real or just another worm.)

And given Jobs' comments of recent (Go to GD and do a search, maybe an archive search as this took place a couple weeks ago), I personally am not hot to trot on supporting him or his products with my hard earned money.

I've been using Windows and Linux for years. I haven't been hit once. Like I said in another response, some of this is due to exploiting human nature -- someone else also said Mac users aren't yet a sufficient target for exploitation (though a google search reveals a couple Mac viruses do exist).