[freehunter]

Take a look at Windows 8 with the Modern interface. Then dive into the settings. It very quickly kicks you out of the Modern interface to do some operations, even on the ARM tablet that didn't official have a desktop. Even if you're on a touchscreen, it makes you tap tiny radio buttons. At least OS X has a consistent user interface.

Funny you mention building your own, I got my first Mac when I got fed up with building and maintaining my own PC. I bought some new RAM and plugged it in, and suddenly it stopped booting. I put the old RAM back in, and it wouldn't boot with the old RAM either. This was the straw that broke the camel's back, after I had gotten fed up with rebooting every week for updates, overheating issues that had been starting to pop up, and how ridiculously loud the fans were for a not-that-good desktop. I was looking at a Surface, but plenty of people are like "oh it's great, but there are some driver issues". It's a first-party machine. There should be no driver issues. Zero.

I bought a Macbook that same day. Everything I was complaining about sounds completely normal to a PC enthusiast. "Of course you're getting overheating, just put more fans in." "Of course the fans are loud, put in more, bigger, slower fans." "Just disable automatic updates and reboot when it's convenient." "Just replace the motherboard."

It's completely asinine. If my car needed that much constant maintenance I'd call it a lemon and demand my money back. I have work to do, and it doesn't involve building a computer to do it.

[matwood]

You've been downvoted, but the underlying theme of your comment is that most of the time OSX on a MBP for example, just works. Is is perfect? No. But, no Windows laptop I ever used prior to my MBP operated with fewer issues. Linux on a laptop was a joke. Maybe both have improved substantially, but instead of waiting I moved on to get work done.