I am not an apple drone per se. But, several years ago I made the switch for an iMac. The reason? I use my machine primarily for photoshop and other graphic programs. At the time I was having to restart my MS machine two or three times a day. It would take about five or six minutes to cycle down and back up. That’s about fifteen minutes a day. About an hour and a half a week. About a full work week per year.
When I realized I was spending a full work week per year watching my computer restart, I had to make a change.
The Mac needs to do that once a day.
The rest of it is BS. My time is worth it.
A unix based OS should never need rebooting. Stopping an application should be all that is necessary. That is the beauty of unix, the OS and the apps are completely divorced and run in separate memory locations. When I did system admin at IBM we had unix servers that had be up for years without a reboot.
I'm still running on XP, because I find it fairly stable. I restart my machine maybe once every week or two (mainly when I have to apply a software update). I put it in sleep or hibernate mode overnight.
If your machine was dying 2 or 3 times a day, then there was something either seriously wrong with your hardware, or you had a malware infection.
Not so! I use my MBP very heavily -- 14+ hous per day -- with nine desktops running apps like Google Earth, Safari, Canvas, (HUGE map creations) Numbers or Excel, Pages, Keynote (readily converted to PowerPoint) iMovie, etc., simultaneously.
I just toggle from work to sleep and back to work. My interval between re-starts is well over a month -- if then...
Drop your old windoze habits -- and let your Mac work for you!
My Mac stays up for weeks and months without needing to reboot. Not that booting's a problem: a Mac with one of those new SSDs will boot up in under 30 seconds.
Quick check:
cynwoody:~$ uptime 17:28 up 36 days, 3:49, 9 users, load averages: 0.63 0.47 0.51 cynwoody:~$