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Whether Windows is buggier then OSX isn't really the issue at hand, but the fact is if you place an OSX box and Windows box on the Internet with a novice user, even with a firewall, I'd put my money on the OSX box everytime. Give it 6 months of use by a novice, and I'd still say the OSX box would run just as well 6 months later -- the Windows box would be lucky if it even boots.
I also hear the stories daily of people with Windows boxes that either buy new computers because the 1 year old 1.4 Ghz box is too slow. No level of education will keep a novice user from hosing up a Windows box, but OSX -- that's different. I've seen novice users, both new to computers and experienced with Windows, jump and run on the Mac with no issues. The ideal that it takes lots of training to switch is crap.
As for the musician you mentioned, my roommate, who is also a musician, is probably spending her incometax return on the mini mac for her music. She uses a Tascam US-122 to record her music into Windows -- but even though I reinstalled Windows 2 months ago on her machine it's still too inundated with crap to be of much use. She can't even burn a CD without it being jumpy.
Unless a user has something that just won't run on OSX I seriously see zero reason why anyone would purchase a new Windows computer. I also bet if Apple would put their computers in Best Buy, Circuit City, and other computer chains it would take off now with the mini mac.
Just my two cents worth,
Sam
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