An article by one of our forum members, I thought it was worth a post, and hope you all enjoy reading it. Thank you MaxWeber for sharing your thoughts:

I realized last night that I no longer feel the need to argue with people over the Mac’s superiority. This was a rather startling realization I assure you, because over the years I’ve had basically the same conversation with the same type of people several hundred times. Only last night I didn’t. Maybe I’m getting older. Maybe I don’t have the energy I used to. Maybe…but I think it is something bigger than that. I’ve come to the conclusion that given enough time, any sufficiently intelligent person will choose Apple’s products over the competition.

And they will do so without someone having to “prove” that the Mac is better. And it isn’t a result of advertising either. People aren’t choosing Macs because of all the great commercials. And they aren’t choosing them because hardcore Mac users are trying to get them to see the light. No it’s simply because Mac is way beyond Windows in terms of… well everything. Security, usability, flexibility, parental controls, everything. OS X has zero viruses. Windows has over 1 million viruses and malicious codes in circulation (according to Symantec Internet Security Report Autumn 2008). In Windows, you have about 8 – 10 seconds on average after connecting to the internet before you’re infected with a virus. From that point on you’re screwed. With OS X you don’t have to worry about it. MS claims Vista will run on a lot of older PCs, but it’s such a resource hog it’ll only run smoothly on brand-new hardware with optimized drivers. Apple and the open-source community have been refining the core foundation of OS X for years, so Leopard runs great, even on older hardware.

Another thing I like about OS X is that things are simple, and they just work. In XP I once tried setting the taskbar to auto-hide, terrible enough that I had to use XP at all, not by choice though. Every time an application needed my attention the taskbar would pop back up and flash until I switched to that application. Every time I plugged in a flash drive, the little Safely Remove Hardware icon would pop up and the taskbar refused to re-hide itself until I clicked that icon and then clicked somewhere else. There’s no reason it has to be that difficult to do something that simple. In OS X, I set the Dock to hide and it stays hidden until I mouse over it. When an application wants my attention, the icon bounces like normal, but the Dock stays hidden. I want it to stay out of the way, and it does. In Windows, things are almost never that easy.

Another nice thing – Standard user accounts. In Windows, you have Admin or Limited accounts. That’s it. Admins can do everything and Limited accounts can basically do nothing. If you have kids or people that don’t know what they’re doing, they can wreak havoc on your PC with an admin account, but if you make them a limited account they won’t be able to install software, run certain programs, or really do anything useful.

In OS X, Standard accounts can install software, but only to their own User account. Standard accounts can’t make system-wide changes, can’t install software system-wide, and can’t do any damage outside of their own user account. This way on the off chance they somehow find a way to make their user account unusable, you just have to delete it and recreate it and everything is back to normal. In Windows, anyone who isn’t an experienced power user is a threat to the entire operating system.

The only thing Windows has over OS X is gaming support, but now a lot of developers/users are porting Windows games to OS X using Cider, so pretty soon that won’t be an issue. Cider is a way of virtualizing Windows APIs so that Windows games can be run in OS X. Those games run perfectly at native speed. You still have to buy the ported Mac version of the game or download one of the great ports of the porting team, but this takes a lot of strain off of the developer, since now they don’t have to hire OS X programmers to port their games, maintain two separate sets of code, etc. So much to the Windows argument “you can’t play games with a MAC! With OS X they give you cutting edge games like Tetris and Pong hahah.” Now that’s funny, so funny, you can tell the windows user who wrote this, that his brain capacity barely extends beyond that of a 5th grader.

Honestly I could go on for hours about why OS X is better than Windows. But everyone can just see for themselves,,no arguing needed. Before people judge and talk about something they have never tried before, they should go to an Apple store and try it out. And then argue with solid arguments! I’m just sick and tired of the Mac VS PC feud, grow up windies and get it into your restricted minds, that there is more than one operating system, more than one computer company!!!!

In my own personal experience, though, there is nothing you can do on a PC that you can’t do on a Mac, and there is absolutely nothing that Windows can do better than OS X.

I am proud to be part of our open minded mac community. And even though I dislike Windows, I would never personally insult someone who uses it. I’ve been insulted with the most awful language one can image just for being a Mac user. And if I argue I argue on a level of facts and not insults.

My respect and appreciation goes out to each and every one of the porting team who proves with every game release that mac does all those fancy windows games with out a problem. As well to Apple and Steve Jobs.

Thank you very much.
Max