What is your operating system of choice? Windows vs. Mac and iOS vs Android.

I am with iOS all the way. Simple to use, smooth, solid and is a great ecosystem!

I know this discussion will get heated. GO!

My everyday computer is an iMac, gaming PC is on Win7

I have an Android phone (mainly because iPhone contracts are obscenely expensive) which I like a lot!

I also have an iPad, which I also like a lot!

Work that one out lol

PC: Win 7

Laptop: Win 7

Car laptop: Win XP (because I could not get Win 7 drivers for my PCMCIA card, but now have a different laptop with a serial port, so could upgrade that to Win 7 if I get a chance)

Phones: WP7 and Symbian

NAS: Linux (or some form)

DVR/CCTV: Linux (of some form, iirc)

None of the above!

PCs/laptops run Ubuntu (Debian + shiny stuff), servers run stock Debian and the phone is a Nokia N900 which runs Maemo Linux (at the time developed by Intel & Nokia) which is basically Debian on ARM + shiny stuff. You might spot a theme developing...

iOS is a much better OS than Android.

I use Mac OS X on laptop, mainly bought a Macbook for the build quality.

Apple.

What ever is the latest version, whether it is laptop or phone. It just works. Always.

And I could sell for roughly 60% of what I paid for it 3 years ago, and still on original battery which still gives me around 4-5 hours typical use like it has always done.

PC would be almost worthless and the battery would not be holding its charge. Well my windoze thinkpady never held its charge after about 1 year.

So cost of ownership roughly same as windoze.

(My windoze machines were never as reliable either)

Windows XP, because I know were everything is,

What is your operating system of choice? Windows vs. Mac and iOS vs Android.

I am with iOS all the way. Simple to use, smooth, solid and is a great ecosystem!

I know this discussion will get heated. GO!

PC = W7

Netbook = Ubuntu

Phone = Android 2.2.2

Home desktop: Win7/64

Home laptop: Win7/64

Media Player: Win7/64

(All are HP with SLC 2.1 BIOS, I'll let you work out how Win7 got on them )

Test PC: Win8 (that really sucks like a Dyson), but will be looking at Linux on it soon.

Home server: WHS 2011

Work laptop: Win7/64, although I have just handed back my MacBook, with Lion and Win7/64 on it.

In my pocket: Simbian on a Nokia E71, but am now seriously considering a Samsung Galaxy S2, to that'll be Andriod (whatever dessert it comes with)

I have windows 7 on my computer and Android on my phone.

Home Laptop - Mac OSX (2010 Macbook Pro, 8GB RAM)

Home Desktop - Mac OSX (2011 27" iMac, 16GB RAM)

Home Server - Windows 2008 R2, only used for streaming media and storage.

Work - Windows 7 running in a VM (VMWare Fusion) on my OSX laptop.

Phone - iPhone 4 16GB.

The only reason for Windows 7 at work is due to lack of compatibility with several applications, otherwise it would be OSX all the way there as well.

Jesus H Muthertrucking Christ, are people just trying to bait people at the moment?!

Jesus H Muthertrucking Christ, are people just trying to bait people at the moment?!

Apple.

What ever is the latest version, whether it is laptop or phone. It just works. Always.

And I could sell for roughly 60% of what I paid for it 3 years ago, and still on original battery which still gives me around 4-5 hours typical use like it has always done.

PC would be almost worthless and the battery would not be holding its charge. Well my windoze thinkpady never held its charge after about 1 year.

So cost of ownership roughly same as windoze.

(My windoze machines were never as reliable either)

Sorry, but this post is everything I hate about Apple, at least in a corporate environment. It doesn't "just work" and it doesn't interoperate properly with any other system (none of our Macs from 10.4 up have ever managed to seamlessly authenticate to our Active Directory, I'm happy to admit that it's my error as I don't have a Mac and have never been offered any kind of administration training, but if it "just worked" then I shouldn't need to know anything other than to tick the box in the Settings panel, ergo it doesn't).

I have a Toshiba laptop which is around 6 years old at home, battery still holds a great charge. Is it "as-new", no, of course not, but nor is your Apple. The very nature of batteries being based around chemical volatility means they're never going to be at 100% for long, but non-Apples are just as capable of having high quality batteries as Apple are.

Once again, I'm considering springing for a Macbook Air as I'm hoping to change jobs soon so will have to hand back my work laptop and get my own, but it's blinkered posts like these which really make me want to avoid being part of the Mac "community".

Win XP at home though not through choice, too skint for new hardware.

I like to tinker with many flavours of Linux.

The OS I think I was most impressed by ever was probably Windows 2000. It just worked, wasn't flashy and was fookin fast.

Win2k was brilliant!

Sorry, but this post is everything I hate about Apple, at least in a corporate environment. It doesn't "just work" and it doesn't interoperate properly with any other system (none of our Macs from 10.4 up have ever managed to seamlessly authenticate to our Active Directory, I'm happy to admit that it's my error as I don't have a Mac and have never been offered any kind of administration training, but if it "just worked" then I shouldn't need to know anything other than to tick the box in the Settings panel, ergo it doesn't).

I have a Toshiba laptop which is around 6 years old at home, battery still holds a great charge. Is it "as-new", no, of course not, but nor is your Apple. The very nature of batteries being based around chemical volatility means they're never going to be at 100% for long, but non-Apples are just as capable of having high quality batteries as Apple are.

Once again, I'm considering springing for a Macbook Air as I'm hoping to change jobs soon so will have to hand back my work laptop and get my own, but it's blinkered posts like these which really make me want to avoid being part of the Mac "community".

These are my opinions based on my experience. Enjoy them!

I do use win7 on our church laptop, against my better judgement, as it doesn't do the job very well and is not a pleasant experience using it for me, but that is the design of the hardware.

I don't work in a corporate environment thank goodness. It drove me crazy when I did. I have a home office network and I have been unable to get one of my xp laptops to connect to it, but seeing as I don't need the laptop, it isn't a problem.

I do understand than some windoze laptops come with better quality batteries etc, but most don't.

Remember I am only voicing my opinion based on my experience running a home office network, which I have only done for the last 12 years, of which Macs have been a part for the last 6 years.

I run xp on Parallels purely so I can access my BlackVue data and update the firmware, otherwise everything else I do is on a mac.

Enjoy your new laptop whatever model you go for.

You might as well be asking people why they bought a particular car. The owner experience and the selection of "best OS" will be based on so many subjective things. You could start with what OS does and industrial user use and it would be none of those already mentioned IBM VM/370, DEC VMS, ICL VME/B etc etc.

Maybe if you answer the following you might be able to make a personal choice, but there is no one size fits all

What do you need the OS to do?

How technically proficient is the user?

What support is there for the OS?

If you use a Microsoft written OS and it works for you, great, if you use an OS written by another company great but don't expect everyone who owns a blue car to agree that red is the best colour for a car.

Desktop Windows 7

IPad 2

IPhone

Various.

iMac at home, Symbian Belle on my Nokia and all day long dealing with Microsoft users, servers etc

Win 7 32 and 64 bit dual boot, soon to be triple boot with Ubuntu

OSX & iOS.. Once you go Mac you never go back..

Gaming PC: Windows 7 Ultimate

Notebook: Arcadia OS v0.2a / Windows 7 Ultimate vLite (dualboot)

Netbook: Arcadia OS v0.1b

Mobile: Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.4 / Windows Tango 7.5 (dualboot)

We got a tech shed for our apple v's windows threads

I'll move your posts there fanboy ......