Mac users in/went to college Options

[slipgun]

How many of you are mac users who used a mac through college, did you wish you had a pc? Im personaly a pc guy, but im highly considering selling my pc and buying a mac laptop for college *15" powerbook*.

[darksecret]

Google is great but far from genius, they wrote the google search engine itself in python, which is the easiest and most forgiving of all languages, they just got lucky that it hit big (basically the way it works is genius but the actual knowledge needed to do it is simple), either way google is great though I use GMail in which I still have 50 invites if you want one celicaST just PM me with your email and i'll send one.

As far as XP vs. OSX, once you fix the mistakes that the Win programmers made (using open source programs or manually) it becomes a very good OS due mostly to it's popularity, out of the box it sucks though. I can say i've never had a virus and can count on one hand how many trojans, worms, etc. i've gotten (actually last time I checked I had one in 3 months that was non-active). Remember this with Windows there are 3 commonly exploited ports, 5, 8, and 23 (or something like that) that really need to be patched, or you can also go in and regualate all the ports manually (which is one of the fixes for bittorrent) and only allow certain programs like updaters and downloaders to use them, which in turn narrows down your chance of something downloading itself, that combined with a good firewall and browser (such as fireox) almost eliminates malicious (sp?)programs.