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Obama’s a MAC, Hillary’s a PC.

LOL! That would work for a tagline! At least until after the DNC convention . . .
Full disclosure: I bought an iMac when OS X was new . . . and have handed it down and recently bought a new iMac. The irony of the "staid, business" PC and the "artsy" Mac image is that underneath all the prettiness, OS X is Leopard gets UNIX 03 certification the industrial-strength OS and Windows is the one that has flimsy underpinnings.
I'm typing this reply in a bigger than normal text box. How do I get that, when you have to use the slider bar and can't see all your text at once? Under Leopard, Safari puts a handle on the bottom-right corner of any text-entry box so I can expand it to further to the right and/or further down. Not only so, but when I do a preview and subsequently expand either the "To" box or the "Your Reply" box to the right, the preview display also stretches out to the right (and consequently tends to shrink vertically since I then get fewer lines of text). Which presents the preview at a more realistic width to what you will probably view it at. Is that pretty, or is that utilitarian? I say, "Yes."
Macs are expensive? Yes - depending. They aren't particularly higher, may be actually cheaper, for the exact configurations which Apple offers. If you want something different than a standard configuration Apple offers, you are likely to be able to get it cheaper in a PC. But in a Mac you are getting quality in the hardware (individuals' mileage may of course vary) and in the software (making allowance for the fact that some things are merely different, and as such must be learned). So you will tend to hand a Mac down; they hold their value better. And now, Macs double as PCs anyway if you find that you need them to. In which case they are expensive PCs because you need to BYO legal copy of Windows. But even then, you have the advantage of being in a position to readily boot from a clean copy of Windows each time - so there's quality in that, too. And - for yet more software $$ - you can run Windows and OS X together.