Apple Users

Most of the reasons have already been posted.

I'm a Mac user from way back.
-First one a Mac II,
-840av, ($8000 with HUGE 16" monitor),
-then a terrible (for Apple), G3 Desktop from the Jobless era
-Quicksilver G4 tower (loved the design)
-Presently a MacBook Pro

Funny thing is that one of my best friends, who still is, introduced me to Macs. He had a Centris Mac and ran his BBS on it back in the 80's. So I finally got my first Mac II. Then he started playing around with PCs and abandoned Apple. While I was gaining respect for their products, he was losing it.

One reason is he was a bit of a geek and liked that you could build your own computer. I can respect the geek argument. If you really like taking computers apart, fixing them, piecing them together, customizing etc... sure, a PC is an endless canvas.
He now is a full on Apple hater. He despises what he calls "useless bells and whistles" on the Mac. (and new Windows OS following along) I try and explain that you don't have to use all the system options, and that those bells and whistles can sometimes help you speed up work during the course of a day, week, year....

Off the top of my head, lets just take the magnifying option for the Dock. To him this is a useless option that drains your OS. But I disagree. I have it set to a slight mag as I roll over. I think it saves a tiny bit of time and fatigue as your eyes find what you want faster, and you don't have to strain your eyes as much, don't have to make sure your cursor is directly over the icon, and can keep a half and eye on where you are going to next etc.. It may seem like not much of an advantage, but over the course of a year, how many minutes, and/or eye strain are we talking about here? I have tried to explain to him that those Bs and Ws that he thinks get in the way, actually help you work faster and more efficiently. But he has his PC blinders firmly installed now.

And that's just one tiny design difference. The fact that Apple has always gone out of their way to build with such attention to detail makes them produce machines that actually save you time. I have used a PC both in training, as well as working for an ISP company doing graphics, so I have worked both sides. There is no comparison. And we haven't even talked about the time-consuming aspect of perpetually fighting viruses, adware, and spyware.

I think there is still this view out there that PCs have won the computer wars, simply because there are so many more out there. Especially since that Jobless era when Apple was actually putting out those clone computers and Apple's demise was bragged about by every PC user every chance they got. Many are miffed that their prediction never came about.