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HI Leon,
Well, I'm an unashamed Mac fanboy. I have used them for about the last 20 years. I have a laptop and a MacPro at home. I bought an elcheapo auction PC for the observatory though. I do all my image capture on the PC (mainly because there isn't really alternative Mac based software), then take them to the MacPro. I use VMWare Fusion to emulate a PC environment to stack the images in CCDStack, then pass them over to the Mac version of Photoshop.
Why do I use a Mac? Like the others have said, they just work. I have had to rebuild the Observatory PC on a couple of occasions, not something I enjoy doing. I have had the system drive die on the Mac, which I then replaced with a new one and told Time Machine to rebuild my Mac, a few hours later all was good. It's also quite powerful, 8 cores, 10Gb RAM, four HDD slots and a 30" monitor to top it all off.
I just bought two of the 27" IMacs for work (to run instruments using XP) as we were trying to save space, all-in-one PC's were what we were after, but they only come with Windows 7 and aren't backward compatible because of hardware driver issues, something that doesn't happen with the internals of a Mac.
Cheers
Stuart
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