It's funny that people claim Macs are more reliable. I have to take my 24" imac in this week because the HD is about to fail (google "flashing question mark of death"). Macs are PCs. Same parts, same power supplies, same processors, same vulnerability to technical failure. The GUI is most definitely more well engineered than Windows but I've had my share of software crashes and system hangs on OSX.
I'm really glad I bought my imac, but the whole "Mac phenomenon" is bordering on cultish. Seriously, it's just a computer. Like Barak Obama, your iMac or Macbook is not the messiah. It's just a tool designed to do a job. Hell, I'm sure half of Apple's worshipers don't even own a Mac.
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