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" But spend 5 hours rebuilding your PC every six-months because your kids picked up a bad PC virus while at a children’s game site and you tend to lose your patience."

My experience in a nutshell around here. I got so p.o.'d at my sons' Windows laptops picking up contagions and needing to be wiped to the bare metal every couple of months despite several antivirus utilities, anti-malware utilities and firewall utilities dragging them down, and my wife's Windows laptop needing almost as much major surgery due to her sucker's fondness for cute animated cursors, browser bars and weather apps, I finally put the whole family on a Mac diet.

It's been about six years now. Not a single support incident on the Macs. Not one.

I'd waste hours on those Windows problems. Even now, we have a WinXP machine, fully antivirus'd/anti-malware'd/firewalled, whose job it is to just sit there and serve our VOIP to the house. It does nothing else: no browsing, no email. Its screen is even shut off. It sits behind a hardware firewall, too. And yet, recently I discovered it'd picked up a Trojan, all by its self. How the hell?

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I'd waste hours on those Windows problems. Even now, we have a WinXP machine, fully antivirus'd/anti-malware'd/firewalled, whose job it is to just sit there and serve our VOIP to the house. It does nothing else: no browsing, no email. Its screen is even shut off. It sits behind a hardware firewall, too. And yet, recently I discovered it'd picked up a Trojan, all by its self. How the hell?

Eventually everyone will understand about the Macintosh and the Mac OS X -- it's great...