Computer Issues

Although it's only been a couple of days I feel like I've been gone from the internet world forever (except that Darrin was gracious enough to let me use his work computer to check email and such). Our computer is going through all kinds of craziness. About two weeks ago we got a horrible trojan on our PC. Darrin spent an entire day or so removing it. Later we continued to have problems, and Darrin had to invest more time into finding the source and getting rid of the virus. We purchased some better virus scan and protection software which allowed Darrin to discover that we had more problems. Poor guy! He had to strip our entire hard drive, reformat it, and reload everything back onto our hard drive. Thankfully, Darrin has created some great back-up systems so we didn't lose anything, but it was a TON of work! He spent all of Monday (his day off for President's Day) working on the computer.

Our computer is slowing down anyway, and even though we have more space and memory it hasn't helped much. We think it may just be the system. We've been shopping around (Darrin moreso than me), and we are trying to decide what to buy. We're strongly considering a Mac due to the lack of virus issues. The main cons we see with it are 1) it's quite a bit more expensive, especially since we'll need to replace programs to suit the Mac, 2) the screen is highly glossy, and 3) everything is all-in-one, so Darrin can't replace parts himself and the entire unit would have to be sent to repair it. A few pros are 1) great for graphics, which is good since I do a lot in PhotoShop and enjoy playing around with pics, 2) viruses are rare, and 3) is user-friendly (although I understand the basics of a PC).

I'd love to hear from any Mac or PC users. If you have used both please share your thoughts. At first I really didn't want a Mac, but our PC issues lately has made me really re-think the idea.