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I've spent the past 12 years supporting Macs and PCs, and there's no comparison. The PC hardware failure rate is close to 15%, the Mac hardware failure rate is extremely close to 0% (two hardware failures of the 600+ machines I've supported).

The Macintosh OS problems were worse under OS 9 (about 2% of them had to have the OS wiped/reinstalled at some point), but they have vitrually disappeared under OS X (a single failure out of the 200 computers I supported).

PCs? Don't get me started. At least 20% of the time it's quicker to wipe the machine and reinstall the OS than to track down the problem, and the number of failures has not gone down over time (i.e. WinXP fails more often than Win2k did, and Win98 failed more often than Win95). About 25% of the Windows computers I install will have to be wiped and the OS reinstalled before they are replaced -- note: that's versus 0.5% of the OS X machines.

Which brings me to my last point: Macs last longer than PCs. Over the past dozen years, most of the organizations I worked for had policies to replace the Windows computers every three or four years. And by policy, they replaced their Macintoshes every five or six years; thus saving themselves money by making the hardware last longer.

BMWs might not be reliable, but Macintoshes are. And if you choose not to see that, I guess you are truly the most blind of them all.
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