Let's see. Ports closed. Built-in firewall. No VBS. It may not be vulnerability free, but out of the box, an OS X machine is many orders of magnitude more secure than an XP machine. Even behind our corporate firewall, new PC's end up getting wormed in hours if IT doesn't spend a couple of hours setting up the machine.

And crashes are only mysterious if you don't look at the logs to see what what going on (this is UNIX, remember?). My Powerbook only gets restarted for system updates, mainly every few weeks.

And the cost of my Powerbook was well within the range of the offerrings from other vendors. Sure, you can't get a $300 macintosh (new). But Apple is very competitive at the high end.

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