[JERRY2KONE]

I have not tried a Mac yet myself, because of the prices. I have had the same desktop PC for over 15 years now and it still does the job for me. I have had issues with it over the years, but repairs are reasonable for the most part. I had one hard drive die on me, but I had a RAID system set up so the second HD was just fine, and the rest were virus issues of one kind or another. If you have a good PC guy to rely on they can fix just about anything. More often then not failures are ususally due to opening up stuff that one should know not to. One of our sons had to use my PC for a school project last week and got a virus from going into U-tube videos. We had taken his laptop, I-touch, and PSP away from him for having two "F" grades. So I let him use mine for an hour or so. I took it into my friends shop and he had it back to me the next day without any problems. It cost me $25 and I have never lost any data. We also have 5 laptops in our family and another desktop that is about 7 years old. Sure we have had issues from time to time, but overall if you take care of your computer needs as far as protection they will last as long as you want them to.

I use Symantic anti virus, and a registry optomizer to keep things clean. As long as you do updates periodically and schedule scans once a week or so everything stays operational. Its really about keeping good habits and staying out of places that everyone knows are full of bad crap that can mess your system up. There are problems with everything at one time or another. I do have to admit that some of the Mac based computers are pretty impressive if you want to pay that much for a PC, but up to now I just could not justiry it.