I jumped to Mac's in 1984 after using a DOS (Apple ][) based machine. My wife and grade school daughter were thrilled with the GUI and I had to spend much less time explaining arcane DOS commands.
I have owned nothing but Macs ever since and can still run some of the software I used on that first Mac on the G4 macs I have today.
I have NEVER had to reload the system software to correct a problem. How many PC users can say that?
Plug and Play? first available on the Mac..... when you control the hardware and the OS, you pretty much can enforce that
Nothing's ever first on a Mac? Firewire, USB: they don't count?
Minor software glitches, sure, but very rare and easy to deal with
I've heard nothing but nightmare stories from PC users and have no desire to switch.
As others have said, I can do everything I need to do with my Mac's
Flame away :-}
Still like it. Just the other night had to go help yet again another elderly neighbor, whom someone had "helped out" by giving them an old windows machine, this one was running 3.1. jeezzz loweez, nightmare. she had gone out bought all sorts of software on cd for it, none of it would run, it was all for various versions she didn't have on the hard drive, the os there could see the cd, but that was it. Told her she had to upgrade this and that to run what she wanted, ram, OS mostly, add a modem, plus the chip was getting older, right at the edge of usefulness for anything modern, an old 486/66 etc-starts to add up, plus having to have someone do it for her.
Mostly it doesn't matter, once people really get to use a mac, vast majority never switch back to windows unless they absolutely have to at work or something. Must be a reason for that I guess. I really don't care, people use what they want to, I just wish more first time users would try it. apple needs to emphasize cost competitveness to expand their market, that's about it really, and their prices have been dropping fairly regular, although they did tweak back up this year for some reason. OS wars are really pretty silly, I don't think it's ever going to be an "all" whatever. What is happening, though, is the younger people are going to linux in droves, that I have seen a lot. It could very well be within a few years linux wins this war/nonwar as they enter the workforce, being the first generation raised entirely in a personal computer world. They learn new things so easily, younger folks always have.
I found out how to do it, we are now the proud owner of our own Macuser_list !