I should have bought a mac last year when I spent a small fortune building a music studio (erroneously) around a PC.
I just bought a Macbook Pro because I needed a new laptop since I'm heading to a tropical destination for the winter to do some riverboarding and surfing and needed to be able to keep doing all my regular design work from afar.
I must say, the Mac is better than I thought it was going to be. I primarily got it because I can run all my PC programs on it via Parrallels desktop for Mac, along with apparently the best music program on the planet, Logic. I know some people having affairs with Logic. I guess it's that good.
Anyway, I was not biting the apple to become a cult member.
But after using it sparingly over this weekend, how can I not become one? The thing rocks! It's way more intuitive than I thought it would be. I bought a PC / Mac mouse first thing so I could right click and have two buttons, but other than that and the fact that everything seems to be opposite of PC, the system is incredibly intuitive and easy to use. Almost too easy. I'm actually struggling most with simple stuff because it's TOO DAMN EASY and I'm thinking it is harder, thus making it harder.
Logic remains to be used, but CS3 performs flawlessly just like I am used to on PC, and the other iEverything programs are pretty cool as well.
The one major drawback – I've really fallen in love with the SR Iron browser (the redone version of Google's Chrome but with the privacy invasion stuff stripped out), and the Chrome platform is not yet compatible with Mac. Not that Firefox is bad, I just like the Chrome setup a lot better.
Small complaints though – overall you can definitely believe the hype about Macs, they are pretty sweet so long as you maximize them with PC stuff like a mouse and Parrallels.