DaLurker said:
I love my Powerbook too but I still use my PC more often. I find that the G4's just too slow to work on the Powerbook day to day. That an I've grown quite comfortable with Windows.
You mentioned your mac not crashing, well my PC hasn't crashed in a long time. I don't understand everybody's notion that PC's crash all the time. If you've built a good stable fast machine, productivity on PC's are just as good as on a Mac.
That said though, I still love my Powerbook. I just can't imagine using it as my main machine.
Here is an abreviated list describing my Windows gripes,
1) Unwanted advertising pop ups while surfing the web.
2) Spyware continuously creeping up in the system. Periodically I need to manually remove the one I can find, to no avail because they keep coming back. I don't feel I should have to purchase multi-level spyware blocking software to solve this problem.
3) Boot time is getting longer as Windows is used. Perusing the registry reveals that various deamons are being installed without my knowledge. I think some of them monitor my web surfing habits, and god only knows what else.
4) Inconsistent printing from Internet Explorer and other apps. The output is often clipped (no print to fit in many apps).
5) When Windows is configured to suspend to disk when the lid closes on a notebook, every so often, Windows does not complete the suspend to disk operation when the lid closes, so the battery completely drains. Just as often Windows hangs while resuming. I see this with several notebooks.
6)Every once in a while, shutdown operations do not complete. I have to manually shutdown (unplug the power). But doing this sometimes leads to lenghty file system checks when the system is restarted.
Need I go on ??? By contrast, I have been using OS X continuously for several months, and I have not seen any the above problems. This OS is rock solid, period.
