(Computers) Apple Vs. Windows

I'm with what Shadow said on the first post, it's not fair to judge on your preference based off of whether or not you could figure out how to use it. Furthermore this debate has more than one topic to it than just how easy it is to use and what it looks like. So I guess I'll give my word on each topic.

I grew up on Windows, so in the end I will end up choosing Windows, but I will have my reasons, even if I briefly use older models as props for my reasoning.

Let's start with design. I don't see why the hey that matters, but I guess I might as well approach it. You may picture a computer as being "big and clunky and square", but when was the last time you saw a spherical computer? A cylindrical one? A dodecahedral one? Last but not least... One that looks like an apple?
My point is, no matter what computer you approach, it's going to be square. I used to have a boxy Windows. Now I have a Dell laptop with a one inch thick screen, even if the screen is small, and that laptop has a ViewSonic monitor connected to it, therefore giving me two screens. I've seen Mac laptops that are pretty pink and all that jazz. (That's another thing—it's a computer, not a Hollister shirt, so why care about color?) But I've seen Macintosh computers that are even boxier than the Windows I once had, and they were an ugly beige color versus the charcoal grey of the Windows.
So in the end, I say nobody wins for design.

Moving on to performance. No, Macs do not automatically win because they lack the Blue Screen of Death, I'll be approaching that later.
Once upon a time I got the opportunity to ditch my school every Thursday to go to this other one where we learned about a bunch of topics we'd use even less likely in our future lives than what we do at regular school. When I went there for my first year, third grade (in this case second semester, making it 2006), I had to take my last resort and use that ugly beige Macintosh I talked about earlier. Normally the charcoal grey ones I used there would take five minutes to take to the log on screen, and another three to actually get in, leaving me with less time than I could have had to work on my project (this school was all about them). This time I got to the Macintosh, and just when I had been successfully logged in, guess what? I didn't get a chance to do any work, as it was time to clean up before lunch. I had the same amount of time as I usually did with my Windows computers, and that was what I got, proving much weaker performance compared to an already brain dead computer.
As for the blue screen of death, really you should only get it if you're abusing the CPU usage, or at least in my mind. For example, you shouldn't have five different Firefox windows open with two tabs each, a Word document and Rhapsody/iTunes running all at the same time. I had almost that exact scenario going on (really it was one window with ten complicated tabs), and that was the only time I'd ever received the blue screen of death. Besides, I get annoyed at my iPod Touch for its many flaws and errors much more than I do my Windows. >.>
So Microsoft wins the performance portion.

I'm also giving a mini little opinion on the dictionaries each company provides. Microsoft provides both grammar and spelling dictionaries, so I like that. Generally the spelling dictionary is correct, but the grammar one is terrible—in fact, eighty percent of the time that grammar checker will make an error. For example, one time it wanted me to change "You *blahblahblah*" to "You is", and after I did that absentmindedly it gave me the green squiggle again and told me to change it to "You are". So I did that, and it gives me the squiggle again and tells me to change it back to "You is", and then back to "You". I pretty much strangled Microsoft Word.
Apple doesn't give you a grammar dictionary, but I don't really care. It's better not to know than to practice incorrectly, especially at youth. I forgot what actually happened, but I remember Leah telling me that her iTouch activating its automatic dictionary and spelling some word wrong. I dunno, ask her.
Guess what? Nobody wins the correctness potion either.

Yup, in the end Microsoft won, though I give kudos to Apple for their iPods, as I'm a fan of those.

Also, check out the YouTube channel "jacksfilms" and check out his iPad parody, along with a few others that involve Apple. ^^ The iPad one is probably the best though.