Mac or Windows?

While I try to be balanced in my advice about computer technology, I am, nevertheless a died-in-the-wool Macintosh evangelist!

Macs may be slightly more expensive to buy, but they more than make up for this through their

• ease of use (saving you hours of time)
• total absence of viruses (saving you hours of angst and time)
• reliability (saving you hours of frustration and time)
• gorgeous looks (providing you with a really enjoyable work environment).

Macs also enjoy great compatibility with most major Windows programs (such as Office, FileMaker, Quark, InDesign etc).

If you are trying to decide between Mac or Windows machines, you don't have to believe me, just have a look at the latest results of PC Magazine's annual satisfaction survey:

Apple 'receives the best "overall rating" score in both: 8.8 in desktops, significantly better than the industry average of 7.8, and 9.0 for notebooks, also significantly better than the 8.0 average. These scores qualify as excellent on our 1-to-10 scale, earning the company Readers' Choice awards for both categories.

At 9.0 for desktops and 9.2 for notebooks, Apple's impressive reliability scores are at least a point higher than the industry averages. Nearly all respondents to our survey who supplied quotes about their Apple desktops found them extremely reliable. Compared with other brands, a much lower percentage of Apple desktop systems needed repairs over the last year.'

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1623864,00.asp