"Upscale" writes:

My point is that I'm thoroughly tired of the elitist bull**** that Mac users
spout whenever problems with Microsoft come up.

Relax, the Mac is a niche product. In the graphic arts, Mac users
aren't "elite", because they all use Macs. Not because they're
better, but because they've always used Macs, and why switch now?

It's a nice machine, but it's Unix underneath, and Linux has
improved a lot lately (check out http://www.mepis.org/)

Apart from popularity, there are two other reasons why Windows
gets hit with more viruses:

The first is that when MS does release patches, a lot of people
don't install them, for whatever reason. There have been virus
outbreaks where the patches already existed.

The other is that since MS got hit first, the other guys have had
time to get their houses in order. The old MacOS was said to be
very insecure, the current one is much less so. Many linux
distributions used to be insecure by default, but now they're not.

I use Windows and I even admit to using Outlook. So what?

Outlook can be replaced...