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My Windows installation died. I'm buying a Mac.

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Just totally randomly. One day, it was booting up fine. Yesterday, I got a Windows update which restarted my computer. When it booted up, blue screen. Hmm, that's odd. Try again. Blue screen. Blue screen. Rising anger...

I'm fed up with Microsoft products. That's all for me.

Good luck on your hunt :) If you need any help or advice just ask! Don't buy extra ram through Apple, they gouge you hard core. All the macs are really easy to upgrade the ram in, except the mini.

As a side note I'd recommend any web developer working on a mac look into Parallels virtualization. It's really slick and having a windows environment is nice to test IE and the like. I haven't used VM Ware for OS X myself so I can't comment on if it's as good.

Linux is free, you know.

Yeah, but hardware and your time to get all the stuff working is not (well, in my case it is not). If you have lots of free time, Linux is indeed free.

try ubuntu fiesty fawn!

Ubuntu really isn't difficult to setup at all on most PCs.

If you already have windows hardware, Ubuntu will autodetect all your hardware automatically. I've installed it on both my desktop and laptop, and it detected everything (wireless, sound, video, you name it) without a hitch. Insertion of install CD to up-and-running time: about 30-40 minutes.

So, even if your time is expensive, it still takes less time than it does to go get a Mac.

You're a little out of date. Try Ubuntu 7.04's live desktop CD on your Windows laptop and just see if it all works. If it does, install and save a bundle on overpriced Apple hardware.

I've gotten all my hardware setup easily with both ArchLinux and Ubuntu. Both take less time than driver installations in Windows.

I've had my share of bad experiences with Apple products/computers. You are just trading one corporation for another - I think you should seriously consider getting a decent piece of hardware from any PC manufacturer and install Ubuntu on it.

Can you boot into safe mode? If so try using System Restore to roll back to the day before you installed the update.

I'm afraid you're just falling for the hype. Apple has done an excellent job at promoting their image as the hip and secure operating system. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts a few months in. I ended up returning my new mac.

It's very secure. Based on FreeBSD (I think?) how could it not be secure?

The problem with their hip image is that corporate users aren't hip and probably won't go for it. And that's about it, otherwise, Macs are quite solid machines and OS X is fantastic. Whenever I use OpenOffice I want to puke just because Apple Pages and KeyNote look and work great.

Why did you return the Mac?

It's a good decision. You can run any OS you want on OS X and its rock solid stable.

Welcome to the buried on Digg.com. :)

Save your money - Ubuntu for the win.

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