Cereal Killer,
As a person who switched late 2011, let me tell you how its been so far for me.
I started out as a hardcore PC user, mainly due to gaming, etc. Then started working from home. Eventually I grew tired of the constant defrags, scandisks, virus updates, virus removals, malware scans, adware scans, cookie cleaning, driver updates, hardware updates, firm wa... well you get the idea.
So I needed a system that was reliable, and just... worked. Spent around 3 months trying to figure out what I wanted to do. I was interested in the apple iMac, my coworkers all had one, all raved by it. but I was hesitant because I also had used a mac back in the pre-osx era. Also, no offense to anyone here, I did not want to become a "apple fanboy", always thought they were... well... losers ;P
Finally broke down and bought it due to video card failure on my pc, was either spend 600 dollars for a new video card, or say to **** with it and buy a new system.
This was my first apple product. I got home, took it out of the box, plugged it in, and turned it on.
At first I hated it, everything was different, menus were different, my magic mouse didnt have my trusty right click button! instant buyers regret. But within a few days, I was starting to enjoy it, it was fast, didnt have much hesitation when loading spreadsheets, watching movies, all the stuff I needed to do for work.
Another week went by, and I was a mac pro (okay maybe not as pro at it from some of these other people) the system is simple, i can count on one hand how many times I've had to go into the terminal, and that was just to change the location my screenshots were saved
A month went by, bought microsoft office for the mac (sadly, apples iwork is lacking in spreadsheet functions) Loved it, worked great.
Another month, still in love with it. but I noticed something...
Something I had not noticed before, I have not had a single crash. a single freeze. No bluescreens. Nothing, it just worked, I got up in the morning, got some coffee, sat down, hit the space bar, and boom! everything is there, ready to roll.
Updates are a breeze, 2 - 3 clicks and it can auto-update your system.
the app store lets you update all your software (if you get it through the app store, which is very well stocked with many choices of anything you could need)
And... and this one is a must for me, uptime. why ? cause i HATE waiting for it to boot up when I need to work.
About a week ago, I wondered how much time the computer had been running, without any need for a restart. My computer (PC) would only go for a few days, before needing to reboot to free up ram, etc.
34 days.
yes...
Thirty... Four... Days! without a single need for a reboot!
And this is constant usage, (it auto-sleeps at night), without a SINGLE crash, a single freeze, anything.
The only, ONLY thing I need to do right now is buy some more ram ;P but thats cause I run adobes creative suite almost daily, very memory intensive software.
Also, to show you how much trust I've put in apple, i went from total distain of apple "fan boys" to becoming one....
I have proudly converted 3 people from PC to iMac. I have a mac book pro for traveling, an iPhone, an iPad, and I just got the Apple TV box for home
I will, NEVER, buy another windows PC again.
Windows sucks.
Take the leap, you'll land on your feet