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I've used Macs for my business from the very beginning 1993.
My very first Mac II purchased in 1987 in Champaign, Illinois for 7k (had to take aloan from the University credit union) is in the basement and it still works... sort of - the floppy disks it used to accept don't load so well anymore. The G3 Desktop that followed it in 1997 I think? is still functioning as an experiment a friend of ours is conducting with networking that I don't really get...but it runs and it runs...Not really a Ford exactly more like my grandpa's old orange International truck to be honest with you strong and steady and for many years. - I just replaced my 6 year old G4 and G3 laptops with the newest MacBook Pro...but the old machines are still functioning and usable for back=up and for friends and family to use or if I need to hire locally to help with a given project (always short term and contract only) The Laptop is for kids to game on when they work for me when I'm travelling. They take care of my animals. They stay here longer if they are allowed to game. The old laptop suits them fine and they don't download trojan horses and spyware onto my husband's windows box if they do go onto porn sites (they are teenage boys after all and I have no intention of monitoring them every minute they are working for me). I have told them that if I catch them or find any crap on my laptop I will inform their parents. (My husband insists he needs something in the Windows set-up he has - bits of this and that from all kinds of different companies - for video games that the Mac doesn't have and he does have to use windows at work - but at least his company told Microsoft to forget Vista) I just have work to do an do not want to make an annual capital layout for my machines. I also do not have time to waste trouble-shooting or dealing with the kind of conflicts and tedious babystepping that Vista especially forces on people. I actually liked NT quite well - it worked. I teach on Windows and I design so that everything I do works with Windows Web browsers but I find I spend a lot less time helping students trouble-shoot technical crap if they are on Macs in the first place.
