Originally Posted by
charo
well, no, i guess if you read what you quoted me on, i'm a gambler too :D
i don't think it's crack-wild to suggest a stability bet between a mac and a pc running an nlited, striped down install of XP on a comparable hardware for audio use only. i say audio use only cause i personally don't think its fair to compare the two when the internet is involved. windows appears to constantly shown to have internet security flaws, and macheads, take alot of joy pointing them out, but to be fair 99% the hacker/spywear/trojans/viruses/etc are being written for windows because it dominates the market share (like over 90%?). flip the script, and i think you find that there are flaws to be abused on the mac side too. In a security test against, a vista, a macbook, and a pc running ubuntu, only the ubuntu one remained guarded.
again for the record, I am not a windows fan, not at all. when i'm not using programs that require windows its linux for me.