We just bought a Sony Viao laptop for my wife. While I'm a Mac guy, Sue doesn't like the feel of the Apple laptop keyboards (for some strange reason, she's always dragging her thumbs across the trackpad, causing the mouse to jump around). There's also a highly specialized bead inventory program she wants for her business that only runs under Windows, so despite my own passion for the Mac platform, we decided to buy a Windows machine.
The Viao is a very nice looking computer (for a PC), with a huge 15" screen, three USB 2 ports, a FireWire port, a 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 processer and 512 mb of RAM. Once we got it out of the books, and stopped ewwing and aweing over it, I immediately ran Windows Update to patch the machine.
It proceeded to install 18 -- 18! -- "critical updates" onto her computer. I knew it was going to be bad, but man, 18 critical updates out of the freaking box? Can you imagine how many brand-spanking new Windows computers are bought and powered up each day, only to be instantly vulnerable because the user doesn't update the operating system? Windows XP does ship with a "security center" now that tries to alert people to the danger, but still -- 18 vulnerabilities?
In my book, those are 18 damn good reasons to consider -- seriously consider -- buying a Mac.
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