To summarize the following; I switched to Mac completely last year... for me it IS better, but it comes at a price I wasn't willing to pay in the past (and is somewhat subjective at that).
A couple of years ago I was asked to add a few keyboard parts to some songs in a band I was in... they were eclectic (bagpipe, sitar, etc), so I figured I'd try a software based synth. While researching this I kept noticing that almost all the folks I saw integrating samples into their live music seemed to be using Macs... so I went ahead and went that route (Mainstage, Logic, and a Saffire Pro 24 DSP Firewire on a slightly old-in-the tooth MacBook Pro). It was an eye opener in that... I really never struggled with becoming productive. As someone mentioned previously, things just tend to work. Its not that you never have to install drivers or whatnot (Saffire required a pretty ugly piece of software), but, on the whole, its WAY less fiddly when you are trying to make something work.
Within a year I was completely on the Apple bandwagon, having switched from Android to iOS and from PC to Mac. I've decided the key to the Apple's advantage is choice... you have WAY less choice on iOS/Mac than with Windows/Android platforms. And while choice sounds great, it turns out that its hard to do as good a job being everything for everyone. Windows is amazingly complicated and successful despite that fact... I have a LOT of respect for what Microsoft has accomplished over the years, but they hump all that compatibility around with them constantly.
Of course Mac stuff demands premium prices... so honestly, if i was young and broke, I probably STILL wouldn't choose to be a Mac person - you can get the job done with a PC laptop for a lot less money. And the results aren't necessarily going to be any worse... it'll just be a little less pleasant, with a few more bumps in the road.
By comparison, the fact that Apple pretty much expects you to upgrade your hardware on THEIR schedule means that they don't have to compromise their performance. That old Mac I bought? When Logic X came out... it required an OSX version that my machine simply wouldn't install. From the perspective of limited financial resources... that's a big disadvantage for Mac. But if you can eat that cost (and convince yourself that its somehow worth it), then you'll tend to feel like Macs run smoother and faster; its not that they are inherently better tech, they just make sure they are always running a race that they will perform well in. I guess this is mostly a matter of market strategy... and so it makes sense if you think about how they market the product: They are OK with all the attitude and elitism. They WANT... they NEED for it to feel like a premium product. One that will serve you well, but at a cost.
Writing all that down makes me feel just a "teensy" bit dirty... not enough to get rid of my stuff and switch back though
