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I try to stay out of the flame wars and for the most part don’t care that much when they happen.

My biggest problem is with the people jumping into windows threads telling people that have never used Macs that if they will just buy one, they will never have problems again.

I dropped $1200 bucks on a Mac laptop Christmas before last. From a hardware standpoint, it has performed worse than the Windows laptops I have owned. I must admit that Apple was great when the battery crapped out in a year and installed a new one for me for free. But when the power cord frayed and stopped working, I found out it was a common problem with the magnetic cords. I went down to the Apple store and found out that they do not consider the part defective and I had to pay for the replacement.

I spent months helping my wife get the Mac set up to work with her school software, and eventually bought a Win 7 netbook for her to do some of those chores.

To me, buy Mac with a smiley face responses are more offensive than than you guys calling each other names for hundreds of posts.

To me, buy Mac with a smiley face responses are more offensive than than you guys calling each other names for hundreds of posts.

ESPECIALLY when the guy who started the thread is debating about moving his WinXP install to a Win7 install. He's not looking to change to a Mac, he wants to know if Win7 is a decent upgrade.

For some people, I swear it's heresy if you don't run their OS... And they get upset when you call them on their near-religious obsession...

Macs definitely aren't perfect. OTOH, despite claims to the contrary, I've never heard a Mac owner say they were. So far with mine I've had the hard drive die after 2+ years. But then I've had lots of PC hard drives die on me over the years. I'm just glad the Mac gave me enough advance warning so that I could replace it before it died. Also, the ball in the mouse stopped working very well after a couple of years, no matter how much I cleaned it. I think my kids got some gunk in there.

Other than that, no problems. I did spend a lot of time searching for drivers for my UPS, until I realized the Mac doesn't need drivers to be installed, and just integrates the UPS into the system's power management. I attribute that headache to me being a PC person, ignorant of the easier Mac ways.