I am a Mac user, but don't really "hate" windows machines. It just seems that the ones I've bought for the family are just not as "easy" to manipulate for simple things. Nobody here is a "computer" savant and my kids get all kinds of cr@p by getting "free games" online. Now stopped. By joining Facebook groups...now stopped and other stupid cr#p.
My only use for the computer is my current business, emergency medicine. Works very well for me but isn't perfect. I still have to use Firefox instead of Safari for certain banking/test certification sites. But it works easily and I must admit I don't have any type of anti-viral protection. I back up my computer hard drive on an external drive weekly and can do it every night if I felt like scheduling it automatically.
I was just sick of messing with drivers, compatibility errors, error messages and after my last hard drive crashed about 3 years ago switched back to Macs. It's been the best thing I've ever done. Stuff is more expensive but the hours wasted messing with my machine easily paid for the Apple surcharge.
As far as Apple being a liberal company.... so is GE, but I still use their light bulbs, CT scanners, MRI machines, lab equipment...etc. But I respect anyone who boycotts them on principle. I will never buy another Suburban (4 previous) because of our affirmative action presidential takeover of that company.
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