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<p>Gotta disagree. They are better assembled and tend to have better QA, so the hardware is usually somewhat more reliable (compare: HP and their laptops’ thermal paste), and I’ve had a grand total of about 3 kernel panics in 5 years of using OS X, whereas my windows machines (XP and 7) have panicked on me plenty. My impression is also that OS X is fundamentally more secure than Windows because it uses the underlying Unix components like the permissions system (it is a BSD derivative at its base, after all). Windows simply has more ways to attack it.</p>