“As any Windows 7 user can tell you, Microsoft is getting more and more aggressive in pushing upgrades to Windows 10 from within Windows 7,” David Gewirtz reports for ZDNet.
“But what about those users for whom it’s time to get a new machine? With the exception of some existing contracts or old inventory, you’re pretty much faced with the choice of not only a new machine, but a new OS — Windows 10,” Gewirtz reports. “Given that you’re going to make a big operating system jump, should you stick with Windows, or move over to the Mac?”
“Because you can run Windows in a virtual machine on a Mac, but you can’t run OS X in a virtual machine on Windows (at least without a Hackintosh hack), you can run a wider variety of software on the Mac,” Gewirtz reports. “That’s precisely why I moved my main machines from Windows to Mac. I actively use a lot of Mac software as well as Windows software, and with Parallels, I can easily use both side-by-side on the same machine.”
“Most Mac users can get away without using an antivirus program, while Windows users would be suicidal to do so,” Gewirtz reports. “If, like me, you need to run both PC and Mac applications, then a well-configured Mac is the best choice (and definitely beats having two machines, especially since you can cut and paste between OS X and a VM running Windows).”
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MacDailyNews Take: Anybody who buys themselves a crappy Windows PC is limiting themselves shortsightedly to an anachronism.