bcrider,

I agree with some of the items you bring up. The fact that APple has fewer viruses comes down to target too though- Linux is based on Unix and can run on a PC too as an alternate OS (just like you can now do Mac OS and Windows with your Intel boxes.) It also has fewer viruses out there and one strength of Vista is the security and running things more protected so the system is not run under administrator mode all the time.

But hardware wise you are much more limited and closed too.

Also there have been boner things Apple and Mac have done over the years- including allowing installs of newer upgrade OS's on Macs a few years back that were not compatible and could not handle something about the OS and end users having Mac's that were then door stops until they got a replacement system board (this was pre OS 10 so I'd have to search for the specific details.)