I guess you waited for the right time to test a Mac. My first experience was in the hayday of blue screens on windows machines caused by poorly written 3rd party hardware drivers. The mantra at the time was Macs don’t crash or Macs don’t blue screen.
So my roommate at OTS (Air Force Officer Training School) had a Mac laptop. I loved the trackball on it, but everything else kind of stunk. And worst of all it crashed more often than any windows machine I ever used. But it didn’t give me a blue screen instead it gave me a cute little bomb picture as opopsed to the text in a blue screen.
For the typical user that may be better and it does mask the severity of the crash. I prefer the blue screen because I know how to read them and can usually guess where the problem is by just reading the blue screen.
I recently used a Mac and while it appears to have caught up to windows in regards to not crashing it is still too much of a simplified system for my taste. But the real issue I have with them now is that bang for the buck and not enough 3rd party software are on them yet.
Plus I don’t like the smell of my own farts so I wouldn’t fit in with the Mac crowd :-)
Mac OS X is Unix. You get all the power, stability, and programmability of a Unix system. That isn't simple. It's complex. Of course most people don't have the education to use that power and complexity. But it's there under the hood for the power user. As for 3rd party software, Unix is the richest environment I know of.