Get a Mac and USE it and you will see there are few illusions... then get back to me. ;^)>
I've just had quite a conversation with a Mac proponent over how well it's going to perform and scale in a medium-to-large heterogenous corporated environment. Lots of claims being made about something that's apparently never been done.
I'm not sure what I'd use it for, and it would cost me more than the last 3 PC's I've owned, combined.
I'm probably not an "average" case, becuse I've always built my own, and have access to a fairly good supply of good used parts. I can't use it at work, the few Macs we had on the network we had to take off because we couldn't justify the cost of what it was going to take to centrally manage and lock down their configurations. We couldn't pass an FDIC security audit with them on the network unmanaged. Most of what I use one for at home is basic web surfing, a few Windows based games, and stuff from work that usually involves using .net framework.