I think Mac's are a fantastic idea for people who don't know how to run a computer. I advise any and all friends that lean on me to support their systems to try a mac, because then I can claim I don't know anything about them once they own them and I never have to worry about fixing another dang computer in my off time from fixing computers.
I think they are a fantastic idea even for those of us who do... Just because they are easy to use and user friendly does not mean they are not sophisticated computers... even more sophisticated than Windows machines.
This attitude that Macs are somehow "lesser" computers than Windows machines is perpetrating a myth.