[PapaBear3625]

At the time I was having to restart my MS machine two or three times a day.

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.

[Vermont Lt]

The problem came with memory management. I use photoshop and some of my files were real memory hogs. When I would close the files the memory would not be released. That would build up over the day.

I had very good antivirus and malware detection.

With the Mac that doesn’t happen.

I am not a drone for Mac. I am just a sports photographer trying to get my job done.

[Swordmaker]

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.

I have TEN OSX Macs running at my office. We haven't restarted them in months... They don't hibernate either. Run 24/7. Oh, they've been running now for four years. No anti-virus software and no firewall except the one on the network router.