I guess a Mac is pretty much the same as a PC!

well after using macs for a little over a year... i've found macs act like PCs. Being that my mac is a lot slower then it used to be after using it after a while.... apps just start to just quit all of a sudden (mostly safari). things just run slower, thinking about reformatting drive..but oh well...or am i wrong?

it's hard to know; do you actually have a mac? what is it? when was your last system update? how much memory do you have? do you repair permissions often? Do you run programs like Onyx that help clean the Mac OSX system? Do you run programs like iMem that help manage memory?
I have found that in Parallels, on my Mac, windows xp is blindingly fast.
Whether or not a mac is a pc isn't really a question...they both are tools that sort of do the same thing. How they each do it, and how you enjoy their interfaces etc is really up to you and is personal.

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