I've been using Mac since 1989, and have so far been very happy with it. While I'm not tat IT savvy, I find the Mac users of old had actually bought the machine to do real work.
Back in 1990, I had use it to do simple garphic design, page layout, scanning of photos and maniulating them in Photoshop (yes started with v1.0 back in Uni), slides presentation, word processing, spreadsheet, music writing, etc.
I never had games on my machine then, and till now, don't fancy playing games, which I think many of the PC users do and is one of the primary reasons why they purchase a Windows machine.
The Mac OSX has never crashed on me, as someone mentioned, applications sometimes do crash but not the OS.
In the old days when the Mac and its applications were expensive, it taught me to buy what I needed, not what I wanted, and that value had stayed with me thus far.
For the PC, it was indeed cheaper, and PC users would just go all out to soup their machine, but ended up not harnessing the full potential of their machine and system. To me then, they were non as the "Mostest": the fastest, biggest, latest...without actually knowing if they need them in the first place.
About the compatabiity problem betw system, I never had the problem working on a Mac, bring the work to office and work it on a PC, since 1995! Many of them who stil talk about this issue, had obviously not worked on a Mac before. A good example is my own wife. I've 3 working Macs at home, and till now she hadn't even touched on them, and yet still go on harping on how un-user friendly it is, and not compatible with Windows.
Talking abt user-friendliness, it is just about getting use to la. When I initially had to work on Windows based PC, I too, complained about how difficult to get use to, etc.
That said, Windows are definitely closing the gap betw Mac and PC now, and Apple doesn;t really have the big advantage anymore....
Haha, after all tat is said, I'm going out to get my son an iMac which can run both MacOS and Windows, since his Pri 1 work needs to be done online and the vendor only supports Windows, which his old iBook doesn't support. Now, hopefully, he can hep entice his mum to the Light Side....
Kenny