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Originally Posted by llama64
For seniors: well, I'm my families resident "tech guy" so no matter what I'm supporting whatever they end up buying. I can say that so far I'm tired of supporting XP based machines and am pushing Apple or Windows 7 onto them (when it comes out). With Apple, chances are you won't be dealing with messy ad-ware/spyware problems which is 90% of what I deal with in my family. What you will deal with is usability and migration problems if they are used to Windows. If that will be a problem, I'd suggest looking into Windows 7 as it finally makes things a lot easier on us home techies. So far this year I've rebuilt 2 XP machines and done virus/malware cleans on a routine basis. My original Macbook went 1.5 years without a single reformat and barely any maintenance and my Pro is doing just fine as well. Supporting OS X shouldn't be a huge issue, time wise. (Also, no virus scanner is required on OS X for the time being)
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i haven't had my dad or my brother and his wife call me for tech help once i cleaned everything up on their machines and installed Firefox, while also removing any shortcuts to IE. if you have friends and family who are useless on computers and you want to save yourself some headaches, that simple switch will save you repeatedly. Firefox is just such a better designed browser than IE, never had any malware/spyware issues with it, especially with Adblock Plus installed