I haven't had any viruses on on our 2 home pc's for 3 years. The firewall and virus programs I use are both freeware. We use Mozilla firefox exclusively and have no issues regarding 'freeze up's" or whatever. In fact no issues regarding any of the software we use.

Granted, my line of work is IT related and that helps somewhat, as I do maintain and tweek regularly to ensure everything is fine tuned and working smoothly .. you do have a valid point there Amos ... the Mac is more beneficial for the average non-IT user.

As for speed .... how fast do we want to go ??

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