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me. cause my pc was constantly being infected with spyware, i had to run a personal firwall, anti-virus software, and without fail always had to re-install at least once every 6 months (however i generally found it easier to just buy a new system every 6 months).
I love my mac, took a month or so to really get used to it and get advanced with things like contextual menus and application replacements for things like excel (appleworks is 70 bucks and really does everything office does unless you have some undying need for microsoft products or extremely high end spreadsheet formulas), the junk mail filter is amazing, and safari is imho a superior browser to ie6 for pc (although it's still beta, so it has a few quirks).
Rendezvous networking is great, much easier to set up than any kind of MS system and really these machines are virtually hack proof.
But best of all? I have a unix shell to work on! I program and play with databases all day anyways, so now i have mysql, php, perl and all the unix tools at my disposal without having to log into a secure shell somewhere remote.
Not to say that there arent some minor sacrifices (e.g. some software just doesnt have a mac version, so i run virtual pc which is definitely slower than a real pc)... however, overall i am extremely pleased and would recommend the switch.
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