I'm a Mac user, and my blood boils when I hear people say this. It's so incredibly smug and lacking in any sense of social sensitivity. I've been on the receiving end.

[At a moderately busy coffee shop]

I sit down with my MacBook to send a few quick emails. A man -- also using a Mac -- sits at the table in front of me, facing away from me. I pull my laptop out and open it up. It recovers from sleep, and I connect to the free WiFi. I've used it many times in the past without issue, but today, I cannot get any web pages to respond.

I say meekly to the man sitting in front of me: "Excuse me, are you able to connect to the WiFi?"

Him: "Yep."

Me: "That's strange, I'm able to connect, but I can't get any web pages to load."

Him: "Get a Mac."

Me: "I've already got one, thanks for nothing."

I understand the imposition I made on him, but hearing "get a Mac" just had me seething. I'd never had an opportunity to say those words to someone else, so I'm not trying to claim any moral high-ground here, but I knew at that moment that I'd never say them should the opportunity arise.

And for those with computers people can be bothered to write virii for because of the massive market share, I would suggest Microsoft Security Essentials or if you have windows 8, don't bother with AV as it is built in.

And get the Flashback trojan -- no user interaction required!

And how would exactly getting a mac protect him from malware when he dual boots to windows?