jesus this thread is scaring! (sorry guys)
mac file system is "HFS+ journaled" its like windows NTFS but is faster and dont get fragmentations or slowdows when the disk is full or half full
you can format drives in fat32 if you want (for pen drives for example to share files with windows users) but thats optional
there is no comparison with MAC and PC , MAC was made for work everything you need is there and doenst require maintence (antivirus , firewalls , disc defrags , formats, etc)
you can realy focus in your work and you dont realy need to know how to use a computer
one example you want to install a software: drag the icon of the aplication to your desktop and he is installed :) , want uninstall a software? simple drag the icon to trash can and thats it
i was a hardcore user of windows and ms-dos since the version 3.1 version in 1990 (and im still a windows user too) but since i made my MAC all the hard works and troubles gone away in a simple mouse click or a button key pressed (thats what a MAC is)
in this days since the arquitedture of the MAC´s are INTEL too you can build a PC with the same specs of one MAC and install OSX there , you will have a MAC PRO for a few euros...
i made my MAC PRO 3.1 in 2008 for 800 euros (monitor + keybord + mouse etc included! i buy all parts on a Portuguese website and mount in home)
i have one internal drive of 500GB for windows 7 x64 (trouble free and faster then XP doing heavy tasks , no bluescreens or hangs garantee in moust cases (i ever saw one even in the beta versions, i was beta testar for microsoft since the first day, ohh i have a blue screen once but was becouse of bad ram problem , i changed the bad ram was never saw a bluescreen again)
then i have one 1000GB internal drive too for the last MAC OSX 10.6.6 64BIT , its faster then XP and doens all you can imagine one windows do, my MAC OSX boot in 6 seconds
this is my 2008 MAC PRO 3.1 build check my screenshot:
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with 3 years old this PC still run perfect the last MAC OSX Snow Leopad 64bits + all MAC audio and video applications you can imagine