Yeah right....as if that company in Seattle has ever supported anything they put out...XP ,Vista ,7 ????
Complain all you want but my Apple products continue to work while associates microsft stuff is dying from crapola viruses and malware all the time....plus my 4 year old Macair is doing very nicely compared to a bunch of the laptops out there (I have had and enjoyed this for four years with an i5 cpu and 4 Gb of ddr go ahead and price that out today for your windows machines and you will still be running 5 to 6 hundred)
Your reply shows your complete and total ignorance on this topic. Microsoft supported XP for more than 12 years, and is still supporting Windows 7.
Apple puts relatively more resources on new products, and has less support for old stuff (and zero support for non Apple hardware). This business model works well for them because they have a nice base of users that will happily fork over their money for the latest and greatest. Microsoft, on the other hand, sells products into corporations whose IT departments upgrade slowly and who demand long term support.
I have used both Windows and Mac products. Never had a virus on either. From a security perspective, it is just not accurate to claim Apple is more secure than a recent MS OS without security features like UAC disabled. In fact, Apple loses the hack competitions pretty much every year. Apple users benefit indirectly from Apple’s relatively low market share because the malware authors target the platform with the most users (Windows) but as that market share climbs, don’t expect it to last. Apple has finally, though, started taking security more seriously, so hopefully things will improve.
Regarding life of your Mac Air, 4 years is not an unusually long life. I had a Macbook Pro that lasted about that long, although over that lifespan it had 2 MB replacements (at Apple’s expense), 1 hard drive replacement, and an internal video cable replacement. My Asus Zenbook, very similar to mac air, is going on 3 years, but has had its MB and an SSD replaced already. My wife typically gets a new laptop every 4 or 5 years, but she doesn’t travel with it so it gets a fraction of the abuse that mine do.