For years I was always a PC kind of guy, but most recently I was getting tired with all the virus's and spyware that was out there. So while looking into other OS I read how Mac's had basically no virus or spyware (maybe 1 or 3 now).
Around the first of the year my Hell PC started to act up. So i asked around and started to look into Macs. I spent countless hour researching them and playing with them at the Apple stores. I ended up buying an iBook G4. Then 2 weeks later the Intel Core Duo Macs came out. I was pissed.
It took some getting used to, but now I'm pretty enficent with it. I read some books browsed the message boards and asked people. I learned a lot. Each day I seem to learn something else.
The OS, in my opinion is cleaner and smoother. What took me a while to get used to was finding the right codex's for movie files, but just did a search and learned all I needed to know. I have windows office for Mac and can load documents between the Mac and Pc's with out any problem.
About 2 months ago my wife started to use my iBook cause she could take it outside with her. Then one morning it hit. My PC would not boot and in this house we both need computers do to our jobs. After one of the techs looked at the PC and diagnosed the problems, it was most cost effective to buy something new. After talking with her we decide to order a 15.4 MacBook Pro Intel COre Duo. We Love it!! Its fast, clean and smooth. Exactly what we needed. Also on the MacBook we bought Parallels Desktop for Mac and run a full version of Windows XP and windows based programs. They load fast and we do not notice and slow down at all. Its great for those programs that aren't Mac friendly.
We are now offically a Mac/Apple home. We still can do everything we need to.
Some of the other features that steered us towards the new MacBook was the user friendlyness of the iPhoto, iDVD, iMovie and other programs it comes with. Of course we have purchased iLife, is it really neccessary, probally not, but the wife got a deal on it from work. We also use the .Mac for document exchange and .Mac sync while at work or traveling. We have not used it for the web page or blog publishing yet.
The feature i love the most is Automator. You can do some much with it once you get used to it, from renaming hundreds of photos you took on your latest trip, setting up scripts to auto run, to creating all kinds of events.