I agree with the vast majority of the previous posts.....MAC is a MUCH more stable and better operating environment than Windows.....however, I'm not a windows hater in the mac/windows verus - verus saga.... I just say Mac is a good system since you have the OS/Hardware and such coming from one vendor versus windows which has to try and be many things to different hardware/software platforms....

With that said, I will say that you can secure and make windows extremely stable...the problem with that imo is that it takes a somewhat technical person to do versus Mac which simply works out the box......

For me I would say, if you want simplicity in a great package that just works out the box....then get a Mac..... and if you want to tweak these things on your own then I would say go with Windows