And while PC manufacturers sometimes fix things about Windows that weren’t broken–take the inscrutable Wi-Fi utility that Lenovo bolts onto Windows Vista–Apple wrote OS X in the first place. Macs are utterly free of such junk, as well as native-to-Windows irritations like word balloons burbling out of the System Tray, Windows Activation, and User Account Control. Windows is an infinitely better operating system when it isn’t smothered by the demoware, adware, and other unwantedware that so many PC manufacturers splay onto the Start menu, the desktop, and the System Tray. In the last week alone, two Windows-using pals have been crippled by attacks I’ve never heard even one real-world horror story from a friend about a Mac security meltdown. But for now, this fact is indisputable: A Mac owner who uses no security software at all runs less risk of being infected by spyware or a virus than a Windows user who obsessively protects his or her PC. If the Internet’s bad guys ever decide to pummel OS X with the same intensity that they’ve pounded on Windows for years, the free ride for Mac fans may end. I don’t pretend to have all the answers why, but it presumably doesn’t hurt that Apple is the only company in the business that writes its own operating system and designs its own hardware. In my experience Macs crash less, suffer from fewer inexplicable slowdowns, deal better with tight memory situations, and boot up and shut down quicker and more reliably. But logging thousands of hours both on Windows PCs from multiple manufacturers and on Macs has convinced me that the average Mac is meaningfully less flaky than the average PC. The joy of predictability.Īnyone who’s ever suffered the indignity known as a Kernel Panic knows that Macs aren’t bulletproof.
Bottom line: It’s easier to get stuff done. OS X’s logical, minimalist interface simply involves fewer things that must be learned and relearned, and Apple messes less with it in new releases such as Leopard. And every time Microsoft does a redecorating job (also known as an upgrade), it moves some stuff around for no apparent reason. Windows Vista reminds me of the legendarily inexplicable Winchester Mystery House - a place with endless wings and far-flung rooms connected by twisty staircases and secret passages.
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