I'm seasoned on both but after years of experience in supporting/setting up and administrating both systems you would have to pry my mac from my cold dead hands.. even then i'd have a spare at home.

My mum is a complete newb in the most total sense yet she bought a digi cam randomly the other week took it home plugged it into her imac and it automatically imported all her photos into iphoto without asking her anything. The auto update keeps her machine up to date 24/7, it has never been reloaded in the 2+ years they have had it..

Thats just a quick example of a newb running a mac.

A newb running vista or xp would be confused with boxes popping up everywhere, wierd errors, drivers not working or not exist-ant and after a month of using the net the machine takes 5 mins to boot and has lots of strange things that seem to happen by themselves.

Thats just a newbs perspective.. I could give you the sys admin perspective or the design perspective both of which are heavily in favor of the mac.

The only thing my windows machine does now is run game and even that is changing now.. More and more people ask my advice on macs, which ones to buy etc and i really do not know one of them who has ever turned around and said they regret changing over.

Heres a post about security on the mac today from zdnet

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/securit...9279815,00.htm

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