That's crazy. I don't know how technical you are, but personally I'd never ever trust my data to such a machine without fixing it or replacing it. I have a zero

That's crazy. I don't know how technical you are, but personally I'd never ever trust my data to such a machine without fixing it or replacing it. I have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to stuff like that. FWIW I've never had to reboot windows beyond once a month for the updates, if at all. I run Win8 and it runs well, pretty much like my other machines - OSX on my MBPro7,1 (Snow Leopard b/c anything else degrades the performance and/or has bugs) & CentOS 6.4 which has been rock solid on my 8 year old repurposed desktop-as-server.