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I just bought my first Mac - a the base level MacBook. It's a nice little machine, gets good battery life, easy to view screen, nice and light, etc.

Altogether a very nicely built machine.

As to OSX - it's nice too. I've run every version of Windows (except Vista), Ubuntu 5, 6, and 7, Mandriva 2007 and 2008, OS2, GEM, and GEOS. OSX is easier to use.

Apple has done a nice job - the rest of the industry had better beware.

My only complaint so far was the Apple store. I use a cane to get around, and the store was so crowded that I ended up on my feet for 1/2 an hour - which was a source of major pain.
In my opinion I'd say Apple has had a massive helping hand from Microsoft last year. Vista is so utterly terrible that it's making people seriously think about alternatives to Windows for the first time in a long time. I certainly know that when I was picking a replacement I found myself wondering how a sleek aluminium Macbook Pro would fair against a plastic fantastic fall-apart-in-five-minutes PC with a daft shiny screen, and while the PC was cheaper and OSX was a bit of an unknown quantity, the prospect of Vista was enough to make me plop for the more expensive Macbook Pro. I'm very happy with it by the way, from an engineering POV it seems to do things the way I would assume was best, like it doesn't appear to page at all until physical memory is running out, whereas Windows is always paging regardless of how much real memory is free.
About damn time Apple started offering Microsoft some decent competition, hopefully it will become big enough to have Microsoft actually put some effort and thinking into their next OS.
Check the specs, you can buy a Windows based laptop for less then have the price of the same specked MacBook. When you can buy OSX 10.5 for $129. ACER laptop for $1198+OSX = MacBookPro for $2700. Only a fool would buy a Apple. Not to mention the Apple only comes with a 1 year warrenty. The CPU , RAM and everything else is interchangeable with Windows based laptop. That little Apple emblem is just a little over priced.