I'm an IT engineer and all my system qualifications are windows based, so I know how to fix them when they go wrong, yet I still chose a mac over a windows based pc, and you can't say macs use old components cos they don't, they use latest iterations of the technologies implemented, they are more expensive but as a useable computer they last at least twice as long. The OS is much more stable too. I'm not a hardcore apple fan, in my business you have to be unbiased, you go with what will do the job best not the make you like