“In their words: Experts weigh in on Mac vs. PC security”
It’s a very long article, so I’ve only skimmed the answers that their chosen experts gave, but it’s very odd to me that the answers were so varied. Market share was brought up several times, as an argument for a Mac (or Linux, though that was barely mentioned), but others said that market share matters a lot less now than it used to. Others mentioned that applications are the important ingredient nowadays, not OSes. And several pointed out that social engineering works the same on any OS.
Probably the most interesting response, to me, was the one from independent researcher Dino Dai Zovi:
Neither. Consumers should see if Apple’s iPad or the forthcoming devices based on Google’s Chrome OS suit their needs because both are significantly more secure than any general-purpose desktop system, Linux, Mac, or PC.
He’s got a point, but I can’t recommend an iPad, at least right now. The same features that make it “significantly more secure” also make it significantly less useful, in my opinion.