Like @Paul says, if you are buying a machine that comes with Vista, keep it but don’t ‘just upgrade’ for the heck of it if you are happy with XP.

Jim

Show me a mac that allows me to manipulate everything that I could ever want to, with absolutely no restrictions or “help” from apple, like Debian, and I’ll go for it.

Until then, the mac OS isn’t for me, and all of these fights about which is the BEST are completely pointless. If it works for you, great, just don’t call me an idiot because my stuff doesn’t work for you. It’s your lame ass that has a problem with it.

Excellent article, by the way.

Vista is a bit bloated and in that I don’t care for it, but it at least looks nicer. Once the UAC is disabled, it’s very stable and in fact I’ve had less funky problems with it than I did with XP.

One of the anti-virus companies did a survey of Windows machines and said that eighty-seven percent had up-to-date virus software, and 95 percent had some form of anti-virus. Microsoft runs an antivirus program with over 200 common viral killers, and they reckon that around one in 350 machines have a virus. Let’s see, Macs are three percent of the world market, and Windows machines with no anti-virus are five percent of the market. Not much difference.

Too many people have been taken in by the people who said “Vista is crap,” to the degree that when most of them saw it, they didn’t even know it was Vista, and still gave it an average of 8.5 marks out of ten after finding out.

Technically, Windows is harder to use than a Mac and more prone to viruses etc, (so not too idiot friendly).

JC
Problem with this theory too, it’s not that it is more prone, it’s that you won’t get much out of a virus for mac or linux, thats only 10% of the computer market. Where as almost all buisnesses, and 90% of computers, run some form of windows. If it is so hard, why is it so popular?

Windows is for idiots who are too stupid or too broke to buy a Mac!”
Problem with that. Mac is one of the most difficult OS’s i’ve used, besides Ubuntu. And to get a decent mac you have to give an arm or a leg. Your smart if you buy a pc because you can get better than mac for a lower price (made a 23,000 dollar power mac, same pc for 8000)