as an operating system Mac is better than Windows

A.)Ok, so widgets can be turned off. well, i suppose that would solve the problem of them being annoying, however, then i couldnt use them anymore. Windows, on the other hand, has a nice thing called a sidebar, that, unlike widgets does not flood the screen, and actually allows me to look at it and to do other things at the same time. B.) Even if it gives me tool tips to tell me what color means what, the fact that i can't tell what they do just by looking at them is the opposite of user friendly. As i said before, the the icons in windows are nice and obvious so i don't have to mouse over them to see what they do. " Unlike the windows these are helpful becuase when you minimize it hides it totally and when you maxamize is only uses the full length of the program not your desktop so that is no inconvience at all." i don't know what version of windows your looking at, but when i minimize something, it very much goes away compleatly(http://img2.putfile.com...) . and the fact that when i maximize something, and it doesnt take up the full screen actually is another "feature" of the mac that is very very annoying. When i click the full screen button, i expect it to take the entire screen, not 2/3s of it. C.) I don't think i've ever accedentally closed something instead of minimizing it, but, even if this is true, if you close the file, but the program is still open, this doesnt make it any easier to recover the changes to the document if you closed it. Also, the fact that when i close something, even if i don't always mean to, i do usually mean to make it go away. The fact that i have to go through a dialog box to do this is simply time consuming. D.) macs cannot run the newest stuff when it comes out. period. Example, if you look at ANY game, the game is realeased for windows usually about a year before it is released on mac, if it's released on mac at all. also, macs just, as of about a week ago, can get Ge-force 8800 video cards, which, although were nice and top-of the line last year, are not quite as good as te 9800 cards we windows users can get. Finally, on the topic of graphics, macintosh, uses OpenGL to render 3d and 2d graphics. OpenGL is always somewhere between 5 and 10 years behind DirectX, which is what windows uses. also,i'm using Opera for internet right now, but i also have firefox and IE7 on my comp, and none of them cost money either, so safari is nothing special there. (safari is also statisically the worst webbrowser for redering CSS and such correctly) Memory. well, my i'm using right now has 240 GB of harddrive space, so i don't think i'll be running out of space any time soon. (i also have 4 gb of RAM if that's what you mean by memory) either way, hardware-wise, windows will always win because people can upgrade their hardware when it gets out of date.(or buy another Hard Drive if they run out of space.) E.) On the topic of Upgrades, the fact that you have to buy ANY upgrades means it costs more than windows. Since i bought vista, i will NEVER have to buy an upgrade ever again. Windows does have Windows update that auto-downloads things and, if you want, prompts you on which you actually want to install. On the topic of memory, i think i've allready established that mac can never win in that regard. F.) A virus a month!? either you had no virus protection or firewalls or you were looking at some bad sites, because i've only ever gotten 1 virus, and AVG killed it prettymuch immediatly.(AVG is free by the way, so i did not pay any money for it) G.) ads don't make something better. For example, do you think that, just because it has more/better commercials, that Taco Bell would have better mexican food than lets say a small restaurant run by actual mexicans? In conclusion, Windows is a superior operating system because it is more user friendly, it supports superior hardware and can have that hardware upgraded when it becomes obsolete, can run the newest software and has compelatly free upgrades. because of these reasons, i urge you to vote con. thank you.