Windows 7

[Angel]

you get a unit that never gets a virus,,,

Something Magic Johnson wishes he had..........

[Sarah]

non-necessity of having to defrag every week

You are NOT supposed to defrag every week, maybe once a month if even that. It shortens your HDD life.

[Ehwmatt]

non-necessity of having to defrag every week

You are NOT supposed to defrag every week, maybe once a month if even that. It shortens your HDD life.

Hyperbole of course. The point is, you don't have to at all on a Mac unless permissions get damaged by a poorly scripted installer program or something along those lines...

[Behshad]

Macs may seem overpriced, but you get a unit that never gets a virus,,, never gets the bluescreen of death,, and for my $1200, and what I got, I would have to pay around the same to get a similiar PC with the same power, memory and software,,,oh and your $400 basic doesnt come with a nice LED screen , does it

Er, Macs can and do crash on occasion. There are also viruses, never say never, but a Windows user could also never get a virus just by having common sense. I'm just trying to be fair here, neither system is perfect and they both have advantages.

Jason said he already had a nice monitor. But even if you bought one with the $400 computer, it'd still come in way lower than $1200.

You have to have EXE files to get viruses, so thats pretty much a never. plus, the crash rate isnt nearly close to what Windows does.

And you would have to spend around $1200 to get a PC in the same class as the iMac (Processor, Memory, HD capacity, software, etc )

Will I give up using PC completely? no. But I think anyone that has a pc and ready to get a new pc, should at least try out a mac

[Rick]

Macs may seem overpriced, but you get a unit that never gets a virus,,, never gets the bluescreen of death,, and for my $1200, and what I got, I would have to pay around the same to get a similiar PC with the same power, memory and software,,,oh and your $400 basic doesnt come with a nice LED screen , does it

Er, Macs can and do crash on occasion. There are also viruses, never say never, but a Windows user could also never get a virus just by having common sense. I'm just trying to be fair here, neither system is perfect and they both have advantages.

Jason said he already had a nice monitor. But even if you bought one with the $400 computer, it'd still come in way lower than $1200.

You have to have EXE files to get viruses, so thats pretty much a never. plus, the crash rate isnt nearly close to what Windows does.

And you would have to spend around $1200 to get a PC in the same class as the iMac (Processor, Memory, HD capacity, software, etc )

Will I give up using PC completely? no. But I think anyone that has a pc and ready to get a new pc, should at least try out a mac

They can get viruses, but the way the OS is designed, it's difficult. Plus, virus writers design viruses to impact as many as possible, so the pc market is the key objective. And it's far easier to write one for Windows based machines.

[WalrusOct9]

Been running Win7 for about 2 months now. Some minor compatibility issues with audio software, but mostly I'm quite impressed.

[Rip Rokken]

non-necessity of having to defrag every week

You are NOT supposed to defrag every week, maybe once a month if even that. It shortens your HDD life.

True... I used to have a very OCD friend who would defrag a system, then defrag it again if he so much as deleted a couple of files. Ridiculous... I recommend defragging as little as twice a year, or on my own system, maybe once a year. How often you really need to depends on how dynamic your hard drive contents are. People that add/remove apps and data regularly will want to defrag a little more often.

[Behshad]

non-necessity of having to defrag every week

You are NOT supposed to defrag every week, maybe once a month if even that. It shortens your HDD life.

True... I used to have a very OCD friend who would defrag a system, then defrag it again if he so much as deleted a couple of files. Ridiculous... I recommend defragging as little as twice a year, or on my own system, maybe once a year. How often you really need to depends on how dynamic your hard drive contents are. People that add/remove apps and data regularly will want to defrag a little more often.

What was his name ?! you know , The "I used to have a friend" stuff automatically points right back to yourself as that "friend" , Rip

it's like stevew2 would say " I have friend who has a crush on Friga"

[Rip Rokken]

non-necessity of having to defrag every week

You are NOT supposed to defrag every week, maybe once a month if even that. It shortens your HDD life.

True... I used to have a very OCD friend who would defrag a system, then defrag it again if he so much as deleted a couple of files. Ridiculous... I recommend defragging as little as twice a year, or on my own system, maybe once a year. How often you really need to depends on how dynamic your hard drive contents are. People that add/remove apps and data regularly will want to defrag a little more often.

What was his name ?! you know , The "I used to have a friend" stuff automatically points right back to yourself as that "friend" , Rip

it's like stevew2 would say " I have friend who has a crush on Friga"

LOL -- no, it was an old co-worker, and I am a bit OCD but not on that level. He was constipated to the point that he couldn't do anything productive. He was also a chronic, habitual hard drive formatter.