We have two Macs and two Windows laptops at my house. Windows is 7 and 8.1 respectively.
I don’t see any superiority in the Mac software or hardware, in fact I’ve had more hardware problems with the Macs, one requiring DVD replacement and the other needed to be replaced entirely after the graphics card died within a week of purchase.
As far as software, both seem to never need to be rebooted but the Windows will get rebooted about once a month because the software has been updated.
I think it is a Coke vs. Pepsi thing.
I definitely do not find the imac to be $900 better.
pro=
quick start restart... EASY and cheap extra monitor set up (cheap now that after market parts are all over)
not dust sucking vents and fans that fill innards with ...dust and muck.
con
DUMB file transfers....EVERYTHING should be drag and drop IMO..not random between drag and drop and export and copy etc etc. VERY annoying when I work with photos all the time ..which is all the time.
$70 “magic mouse” FAR WORSE than $5 two button wireless PC mouse. Slow cursor that i had to adjust with extra program, and the cheap sold-out-of-a-barrel wireless pc mouse is far far more accurate than the Apple magic mouse.
Software problem after 3 weeks.
Spinning wheel of death from day 1.
Spinning blue wheel from day 1.
It does not just work.
It's more a Baptist/Methodist thing, but played with the volume of a Muslims/Jews thing.