OK, I'll confess that I like the Justin Long "Get a Mac" ads as much as the next guy. I think some of them are actually pretty humorous - but I have to say that I am starting to get a little weary of them constantly bashing Vista's reliability in the latest round of ads to hit the tube. I realize that [cr]apple is doing anything they can to gain some traction in their hopeless war for market share with Microsoft, but I think some of the tactics they are using in their current ads are simply ridiculous. Either that, or I must be the only person in the world that is not having any problems with Vista, especially when it comes to reliability (as measured by continuous uptime in my geeky little mind).
Here is a screen clipping from my "daily-driver" PC at the office:
This screenshot was taken this morning after I installed the "Patch Tuesday" updates that downloaded overnight. No reboot necessary. This machine has been running without a reboot for close to 35 days and counting. The last time I had to reboot was on April 9th, and that was because I accidentally allowed Windows Update to apply a security patch for Office while I still had Outlook running - but that was my bad and not a "Vista reliability problem." Prior to that, the last time it was rebooted was when I installed Vista Service Pack 1 on February 21st. Before that, the last time I had to reboot this PC was when I needed to power it down to replace a failed graphics card back in mid-January - but once again, this was not due to a "Vista reliability problem," it was due to a hardware failure (so it would be more accurate to say this was a Diamond/ATI reliability problem).
In the interest of full disclosure I do have to admit that this machine was suffering daily blue-screen crashes there for a while in early January. But those were being caused by the failing graphics adapter, and this behavior ceased when I disabled that device until I got a replacement (this PC has 2 graphics cards so it can run 3 or 4 monitors, and suffering with only 2 displays for a week was really painful). Vista reliability problem? Nope.
I realize there are folks out there that do have issues with Vista, and I do feel sorry for them. But part of me thinks that a lot of these problems are probably self-inflicted as well. Feel free to go get yourself a Mac if you think it will solve your problems with Vista (and you can afford one and don't mind never being able to upgrade the hardware). Just don't go quoting "Vista's reliability problems" as your excuse, it won't fly with me.