coming to this thread a bit late, but your experience mirrors mine.
I watched other tiny businesses flounder as they followed the “big guys” into the PC world, and felt sorry for them and their struggles.
Our Macs never failed us, and even though inexperienced, we never had to pay outside help to keep them up and running, for we couldn’t afford to be down for a day, or pay for expensive IT assistance.
I do not think it is luck, randita, I think Macs were designed to help average people get work done easily, without hassles, glitches, and complications, not to mention... having to master complicated software manuals.
Macs are not for those who love to tinker, and then boast about their skills in building/programming/troubleshooting, and they are probably not for those who must deal with what the front office dictates they use.
But, they are for us independent small business entrepreneurs, who must get it done, or lose our clients and/or our income.
I have no stock in Apple (wish I did), but am forever grateful to them for our ability to run our little business and survive in a tough marketplace.
We run a small business as well and can’t afford the time, IT charges, and loss of revenue a computer problem would cause.
We’re not techies. We just want to start the computer and have it work flawlessly without tweaking or tinkering. We’ve been satisfied. I don’t understand why some people are so hostile to that concept.