A computer is a computer is a computer
I have this friend who always gets me going on the Mac vs. PC kick. He is still a bit in the newb phase of using Macs since OS X is his first experience with the Macs. My first computer experience dates back to about 1992 or so using Win 3.1 and since then I have used every OS that M$ has released. My first Mac experience was with what I like to refer to as the byte cruncher using OS 7.5. Why byte cruncher? Well it always sounded as though it were eating bytes for breakfast every time you would walk away from it. So now I should get on with my story. This friend of mine, he speaks ever so highly of his experience with Mac and has every bit of harshness towards M$ products complaining of the blue screen of death and driver issues. I have a PC that I paid a base price of $600.00 for and then added a few hundred in parts I already had and a few new ones.
I installed Windows XP 993 days ago now do the math, that’s just a bit shy of 3 full years on one install. Never have I had to run a system restore or any such bothersome routines. I manually update and weed out the updates that are unnecessary for my system, run a reliable ant virus and so on. As for crashes and reboots, only if I intend to crash it does this machine crash and reboots well that depends on the user and what they install but all of mine have been scheduled and have gone with very little down time as an effect. Speaking of downtime how about the flipside. Would you believe me if I told you that up until the show I just played at requiring use of this machine so therefore requiring it to be shut down this Windows XP machine had 4.5 months of solid uptime.
Unbelievable as it may be it is easily obtainable. Get your configurations right and don’t mess with things and if you do make sure you know what the heck you are doing and even then mistakes can be made. 99.9% of all issues with a ANY computer be it PC, Mac or whatever are what is referred to as PEBKAC and for all those who are unaware of what that means it is simple. Problem exists between keyboard and chair