I wish I didn’t.

5. When you pay a premium, you expect quality customer service. I am sorry to have learnt that Apple’s customer service is awful.

4. Macs do crush — a lot! In fact more frequent than all of my boxes running Windows. I must admint that I was happier with Tiger, OS exceptions were rare. Their software stack though, especially Safari was another story. Leopard is the worst POS ever! I’ve had blue screens with Windows maybe once year, I currently get the black screen of death every two days. I havent upgraded to Intel-based Mac yet; but hey who is stupid enough to pay that much of a premium for the same CPU?

3. What idiot asserted that there are no viruses on a Mac? ALL software is subject to a subversion attack, Unix is no different. It’s a bit more challenging but not rocket science. Just raise the stakes and make it worth my while Of course most enterprises dont run Mac OS X, it is not enterprise-friendly and that’s where the dough is.

2. Usability is a question of taste. For those indoctrinated into Windows and Unix world, Mac’s spin on BSD is unnecessarily constrained. Yes, it’s pretty — but it also has a learning curve.

1. I’m a developer. Having to work around the OS to get something coded up (not using Cocoa) is a real pain in the butt. Debugging code for embedded device is a heart-burn.

0. Too much hype and too much let down. The truth is I am not thrilled about most electronics now days; too many unfullfilled promises and poor quality code. However, I get most miffed when consumers get their hopes up, shell out the hard earned cash and are really paying for a mediocre product. I’ve tried Apple products for the past 12 years. They all have a short life.

My $ 0.06….

Do some research before you make another 10 stupid reasons why you shouldn’t get a mac, which aren’t even VALID.
1.) Oh, so if one Mac crashes, they all are that bad, eh? Using your logic, that means if one PC isn’t worth what you pay, none of them are. Actually, the second statement is true, but the first isn’t. Think about that for a while. PS: If you did any research about macs, you’d know that every version before X was made from scratch. Oh and, Windows was originally a copy of Macintosh.
2.) Bootcamp isn’t so you buy a Mac and completely use vista on it (who in the right mind would use vista anyways?), but so that Mac users can still use Pc-Only software. And there is a right click button, but it’s hidden underneath the casing of the mouse (and you have to activate it).
3.) Microsoft Office For Mac is not a complete reason to switch, but a reason switching is easier than you people would think.
4.) iChat is still better than your cheap Windows Live Messenger. Besides, we even have our own webcams built in (unless we use a Mac Mini/Pro).
5.) Just because my iMac is smaller and awesomer-looking than your pc, that doesn’t mean it’s worse. The only bad Mac is the Macbook Air. And yes, the Puck mouse sucked, but that’s no reason not to switch. Because it stopped being manufactured. ABOUT 7-10 YEARS AGO.
6.) Windows XP does have drivers. Alot. I plugged in a mouse on my iMac and it started working instantly. Then I plugged the SAME mouse into a Windows XP SP2 PC and it wanted me to try to install drivers for it.
7.) Oh no, you lose Gtalk. Big deal. iChat is a good variant to that. And this may surprise you, but Macintosh has more than just a web-browser and a word-processor. The main portion of software we give up is viruses.
8.) You idiot, WINDOWS copied MACINTOSH. I mean, Look at Vista and all of the OS X versions. Many of the so-called “New Features” have been on mac for a few years. 2 Examples: Widgets and Spotlight. Spotlight was added 10.3 or earlier, and Widgets 10.4 or earlier. The idiot Windows versions were “newly introduced” with vista. And ONLY Os X is based of Unix. OS 9 and below uses their own coding, which is what Windows is based off.
9.) Even if you came to digital design ages ahead of us (which you didn’t), our digital design software is still eons ahead of the PC counterparts.
10.) Try using our excellent software, and then try telling us it’s “Mediocre.”

I personally favour Mac over Windows and I’ve only had a Mac for just over 6 months. Prior to that I’ve always used Windows and the odd flavour of Linux. I still use Windows XP (I didn’t like Vista), and the machine it runs on is one I built myself 4 years ago. Windows XP has always been reliable for me and I’ve had very few problems with it.

I hate the OS war, it doesn’t matter what OS you use, at the end of the day it boils down to personal preference. I use Windows XP and OS X, Leopard. I will always be a Windows user and a Mac user…and Ubuntu at odd times.

Macs do crash, but in my experience nowhere near as often as Windows. The times when my Mac has crashed are when it’s been woken up, the login screen either freezes or doesn’t appear at all LOL. Firefox has a tendancy to stop responding quite frequently but force quit takes care of that.

Given the fact that OS X is built on a Unix platform it tends to be more stable than windows. Unix apparently never crashes but I doubt it was ever intended to have a powerful GUI running on it.