That was fun.
Yes, the strength of mac is that they hire real designers to design their hardware. Their machines are really nice to have and hold, but you pay for that. Recently, some companies made notebooks which come close aesthetically, (Samsung has some nice looking books) but most of the desktop PCs I have seen are very kitchie. However, aesthetics are wasted on 90% of humans.
OS X is a wonderful OS, and if you ever used X on Sun OS, you'll appreciate Apple's achievement. Macs, however, have always shown a lack, when trying to do anything like microcontroller work. Only now are they beginning to become useful in this regard, and that is because of their UNIX base.
The real kicker with mac, is that you can't build your own hardware, and that suX!