Thinking about a Mac

I spent the better part of my night and morning reformatting both our computers (PC and laptop) at home. It's like the tenth time in 12 months we've had to wipe everything out and start over.

While I'm cabable of faking it doing this, I'm sick of the viruses and spyware that end up taking them down... at least that is what I think is happening anyway.

Part of the problem is that I'm cheap frugal and we were on dial-up at home. (Hey... it was $10 a month!) Consequently, we weren't able to keep up with the virus updates and windows updates. (Who has time to wait for a 3 hour download?!).

So, last night I also activated cable internet access with Comcast. They had a special, so I finally just gave in and called. Got my cable modem hummin' along and have done all the updates, downloads and firewalls for everything.

We'll see how it goes.

Blah blah blah.

Bottom line is that we've been considering switching to Mac for several months now. I've read / heard that Macs don't have these types of problems.

Anyone have any feedback on this concept?

I'm gonna be using a Mac at my new job (which I'm pumped about) but I'm no techie and welcome any info you "mac people" (Rex) can provide.