<p>In reality, I’m not nearly as rude as I can sometimes be on these forums. I can’t deny that it’s much easier to insult someone when you’re not conversing with them face to face. On that note, you’ve acted for the most part with gentleman-like conduct and I have to commend you for that. My ill manners were more directed at the other individual who initially resorted to ugly language and you were something of an innocent bystander by comparison. This is my last post as I have finally realized, in retrospect, the utter fruitlessness of a Mac vs. PC argument. Let’s face it, I’m not going to change my mind and neither will you. For that matter, will our futile bickering have any bearing at all on the situation? I have personally never encountered any significant problems with Windows and certainly nothing on the level of what you describe with your friend’s malware issues. My university’s website makes it very clear that it is inadvisable to purchase a Mac with the sole intent of bootcamping to Windows for every session (which I will inevitably do, given the compatibility issues of many of the programs utilized in the curriculum). I’m sure the same goes for many other universities. And, one final question, as I just noticed your most recent post…why did you purchase a nehalem-based system from Apple when you could have easily built your own? The argument about the three major OSs is somewhat insufficient in the long-run, given the enormous market share of the Windows OS. Are you simply coding in OSX for fun or is it somehow profitable to target its small consumer base?</p>