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Up until 1.5 years ago, I've never owned a mac, and used PC's for the previous 15 years. Whenever anyone asked me about apple, I would happily state how they sucked. I am a compulsive buyer, and being subject to boredom, a friend talked me into buying a powerbook g4 (tibook), fast forward 1.5 years, i now have tibook, dual-2 g5 with dual cinema screens, ipod, and have bought ipod, and imac's for friends/family. Anyone who says that mac's are "crap", or "crap for anything that's not design work" are wrong. You can do anything on a mac that you can do on a PC, and you can also do anything on a PC that you can do on a mac. There will be some things you will find that work better on one than the other. Personally, I find that 99% of the things that I do work better on the mac than the pc (and this includes, surfing the web, ssh, testing c programs I write for unix, and so on. OSX is based on FreeBSD, and has apple's UI. Basically that translates into, "designed to be simple enough for an idiot to use, yet has the capabilities to keep an advanced user happy." If you're not willing to learn how to do things again, you won't be happy. Everything is different to some degree, some things are very different. If you are willing to learn, you might be a poster-boy switcher at some point.
I bought an iMac for my mother recently, specifically because I got tired of cleaning the computer up every time she got spyware/viruses on there, which was turning into a daily occurance.
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