I changed my wife/childrens’ computer from WinXP Home to Mac over one year ago. I have used x86 class machines since my 8088 PCjr (10 y/o). She’s been running it for about 8 months now and I haven’t been contacted once to do troubleshooting or tech support…which was pretty much a monthly occurance when she was using Windows.
I highly recommend an Apple Macintosh to anyone who needs to get a replacement PC for their parents. Now she doesn’t have to worry about the latest Microsoft worm being spammed to her and then auto-executed from the preview pane, because Apple Mail can’t execute scripts. She’s got an eMac 700MHz with 384MB RAM, which replaced a Win95 machine that was completely devastated by an Outlook Express virus. We were talking about Windows and how Blaster had blasted some of the departments where she works, and she said, “I don’t mind using Windows at work because we have tech guys walking around patching and fixing it all the time, but at home I can’t afford to have a technician come out and fix it.” My mother said something to me the other day about her Macintosh that I thought sounded like a commercial for Apple, but it rings true. I spend most of my time trying to find out what the heck the reason why anyone would want to buy a Windows computer, when it simply just cant do everything my MAC CAN! =) Thanks Apple, never thought I would have ever owned one of your computers - I was wrong. Sure - Virtual PC has its share of problems (VERY few) BUT SO DOES THE OPERATING SYSTEM THAT ITS RUNNING! Virtual PC will let me surf the internet with any application, no matter what it is. (and CHEAPER) Also, if I absolutly see something I cant do for the mac, I pop open the trusty Virtual PC and start Windows and then the application. Microsoft Office for the Mac seems to me a bit better than its partner for Windows based machines. Everyone I talk to try and tell me stuf like ‘eww, that thing is ugly’ Eh, look whos talking =) then the next step if that doesnt work is ‘There is NO applications on the mac!’ Wrong again. I am so happy that I just sold all of my x86 hardware to friends - I simply just dont need it any longer. As of about 3 months ago, I too switched to the Mac.
It seems like alot of new reviews of the Mac OS X has come oute recently.