The top 5 reasons I choose to use Vista as little as possible.

The next few paragraphs will be a little bit of ramblings about why I choose to run OS X over Vista at any given time.

1. Driver Support

There is very little support for Vista, even though it has been out for more than a year (As far as I know). Not even Microsoft has made drivers for Vista. I had a Microsoft Wireless Keyboard and Mouse combo from when I used XP, and when upgrading to Vista, I came to the horrible conclusion that they just would NOT work for Vista. There were, and to this date are NO drivers for my Microsoft Keyboard and Mouse. How ironic. Getting to third party apps, we see the same thing. There are less and less applications every day giving support for XP, yet they are doing a horrible job at giving support for Vista. I get a fatal missing driver error when trying to run vista 33% of the time, causing me to break things in frustration.

2. Ease of Access

I want to use an Operating System in which I can just hop on, quickly open a text editor with the click of a button, select a layout, type, and then print. Macs can do this. From the start. Windows, not so much. Linux? Forget about it. My advice is to stay away from Linux no matter what unless you like the open source, or like to program (Thats my OPINION!). My Mac saw drivers of a new printer before I looked back at the screen from plugging it in.

3. The Software, Software, and Software.

I LOVE Mac’s OS X. Its incredibly easy to navigate, and looks way better than vista could ever want to be. Who cares if it costs more money to get a Mac with the same specs as a PC? Your not paying for just the computer. Your paying for the hardware, the software, the accessibility, the ability to use OS X, and more.
4. Things not crashing

Viruses. Its a big topic with the Mac/Windows war. The short answer is that YES, Macs can get viruses. Do they? Not much. Not as many people use Mac as do Windows, so making viruses for a Mac isn’t probable as it has little chance to succeed at what it is made for. Viruses could be made for the Mac too, but as far as I know there is no way for a virus to delete or modify system viral files. Aren’t those the good ol’ days? Viruses controlling the apps of your computer, and messing with system files. WHY would windows make the System files as a normal folder like they do? Well, I couldn’t answer that if I had to answer it to save my life. Anyways, things don’t usually crash on Macs. They’re very stable machines, and the OS is very stable too.

5. The ability to use windows.

You want a Mac, I know, but you need windows for work. Tell me about it. This is where Vmware, Parallels, and BootCamp come in. BootCamp im going to go over briefly, because its really only a partition program, but here we go. You can choose to install Vista, XP, or a Linux distro (As long as you have the disk or disk image of the ) and then you can download a drivers disk of apple drivers to use when you get the partition installed. This means you can make a partition, use bootcamp to install it, then run your Mac on that partition. From there you can install the Mac drivers, and you can use Mac functions like you’ve never left home. Partitions not your thing? Ok, then get VMware or Parallels. These programs will create virtual machines inside of your Mac allowing you to use a different operating system in a window as an application on the Mac. Heck, on Parallels you can even run it so you have your start bar, and mac bars on one screen, and your mac and windows apps working seamlessly together! And you can share all your folders!

Need more info?

Parallels : http://www.parallels.com/
VMware: http://vmware.com/

BootCamp: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/boo…

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