I’d buy a Mac, but I’m not gay.
I’d buy a PC, but I fix PCs for a living. I don’t want to have to work on mine before I can do productive work.
Thanks for playing.
Back in the Dark Ages when I was in ROTC in college, they taught us about the "line of demarcation." When you plan a battle, you start the plan with the assumption that your forces will be in certain positions at a certain time. For any given unit, the position it is supposed to be in at the start of the action is called its "line of demarcation." There is no plan to get to that point, you assume that your forces can all be there at the start.So if your forces find themselves engaged with the enemy while they are moving to the line of demarcation, and have to fight to get there, your plan already is out of kilter, and is likely to be a complete lash up.
When I decide to use my computer my plan does not include running an antivirus program or debugging some conflict, and if I do have to do that I am out of sorts and not getting what I want from my experience. The virus problem on Windows is such that it takes a lot of the fun out of using it. Even if I didn't have a virus on my machine there was enough going on to make me wonder if I did. With the Macs there is so much less concern about viruses that it constitutes an entirely different experience.
It's possible that Windows 7 will get you out of that miasma; I certainly hope so. Until then, well, I just think that antivirus software is a band aid and not a solution. Viruses are a threat that was assumed away in the early PC era, and the legacy of that bad assumption is a Sword of Damocles over the head of any PC user. Unix was made with the threat of malicious software in mind, and is inherently much more robust. OS X was developed from a Unix basis and, Leopard gets UNIX 03 certification (in the Leopard version and running on an Intel processor) it is entitled to the Unix trademark. I actually do encounter problems from time to time on my Mac, but at least I don't worry that it is a virus - the solution has always proven to be what I didn't know, which in all but one instance has seemed obvious in retrospect. Linux tends to the same characteristics - except that OS X is better suited to the user who doesn't want to be a computer guru. And that Apple provides customer service on a personal basis if you can get to an Apple Store. For some of us, trying to save money by settling for an inferior OS and dodgy customer service seems like false economy.
You'd better check because your reply is definitely GAY!