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Originally posted by Ryan0751 True... but OS X is based on a MUCH better foundation (BSD Unix) then windows is. Windows NT was originally based on VMS (also an incredibly stable, though antiquated, OS). But with all the cruft that microsoft has shoved into Windows, it's a bloated disaster (especially Vista). Apple did the right thing with OS X. They essentially threw away their old OS, and started with a new one. Added some backward compatability (Classic Mode) to it, and said "this is how it's gonna be". Microsoft still has remnants from the 1980's in Windows, and it's showed with the disaster that is Vista. It took them 5 years to make a prettier interface and a security model that prompts the user every 5 minutes. The stability aspect of Mac's comes from the fact that Apple has complete control over both the hardware AND the operating system. They only need to support what they provide in their hardware, and they can test it and ensure a higher level of quality than windows running on an unknown brand PC. That being said, XP run on quality components is not unstable. I've never had my work machine BSOD, not once. But it has been infected with a worm I have had my Mac at home lockup, but it's only happened VERY rarely, usually when I was doing something with third party hardware. I also have found that OS X really doesn't get "cluttered" over time. With all of my Windows installations, over time you really just need to reformat and reinstall because of all the crap that gets littered around the file system and registry. That doesn't seem to happen nearly as much with OS X (there is no registry, and applications are pretty much self contained).

/me nods agreeingly

and I know that's not a word, but it sounds so... right