Well put.
I have an old ibook G4. A good computer with no problems.
I recently upgraded to a MacBook for work at home reasons. I bought Win XP and partitioned the drive. Installed WinXP so I can do my work stuff. This computer rocks!
I still have the ibook g4 in the other room. It still rocks.
I also have an older Windows laptop that kept crashing. So I, as computer illiterate as I am, am installing linux on it so it can be useful again.
Mac stuff works.
I had a G4 iBook bought about 2003. It was used hard over the last 6 years without trouble. It just last week began to develop a short in the wiring harness connecting the LCD panel; likely due to opening and closing the lid about a million times. I retired it and bought one of the new aluminum MacBooks. What a nicely constructed machine. It's solid, with no flex. Tolerances on every panel are perfect, hell the machine is even nicely finished on the inside of the battery compartment. It's a pleasure to own.