Comparison between macs and pc.

my father has a pc and he's having all kinds of trouble and i bught a mac and i'm not having any real trouble, yet i have a freind that says that macs are garbage. what could be the real dislike for macs? no viruses, and no troubles what's the deal? just curious.

You can see an Apple list of mac strengths at http://www.apple.com/switch/ . When I hear someone say something is garbage, many times that's an emotional or anectdotal statement without fact to back it up. You might ask your friend who thinks macs are garbage why they have that opinion.
While you can count OS X virus on one hand, and compared to Windows one might say there are no virus's, we're not immune. It's been suggested as macs become more popular, they may become more of a target for virus writers.
People who haven't actually used a mac don't know about the benefits of the hardware/software package.

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