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.
** Public Schools LOVE Macs and buy them like mad ! **
I always ask people who come for me for advice on which machine to get, to consider what support system they have. If they are surrounded by Windows users, then I tell them to go with that. Same for what software they want to use. If they don't have anyone to help, and it's mostly to surf the web, it's an iMac, hands down. Plug and play, no bother.
I got my wife one for Christmas last year and have had to do absolutely nothing to it since.