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Originally posted by Jesus Pimp
Yeah 5 years after they come out. I don't see a mac version of Half Life 2, GTA VC, Midnight Club 2, Final Fantasy XI, Battlefield 1942, etc.. the list goes on. 
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We're also still waiting on the Mac versions of the MS Blaster worm, Code Red, the Autorooter worm, Yaha, Klez, Sobig, BugBear, Webber, and hundreds of other malware programs that flourish in the Windows OS.
While Mac users aren't immune the viri and worms, the number that can attack us is less than .1% of the malware "market", and most of those are MS Office Macros "viri" (Visual Basic scripts not really worth of the name virus), which can bother you only if you use MS Office.
This qualifies as a very good to consider Apple over the Wintel clones.
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Break something in your computer? You'll have to replace your entire machine.
All microsoft does is make a great OS. You don't have to use it if you want to. They don't force you to buy certain hardware. Don't like IE? Don't use it.
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Pure, distilled, 100% ignorance.
If something breaks in a Mac, you can replace the broken component without a whole new machine; quite unlike some Gateway models from 2-3 years ago where you can't even upgrade the RAM. If you have a PowerMac tower, you can have most replacement jobs completed in the time it take for you to get the case off any unmodified Wintel machine.
As for the quality of Microsoft's OS, see
here and
here and even
here.
Ever try to run any version of Windows on the minimum "required system"? It won't. You're forced to upgrade to use the product. MacOS's minimums can sometimes even be circumvented (eg, XpostFacto); and OSX can run (slowly) on an old 604e chip @120 MHz instead of the stated minimum G3 @ 233, if you have the minimum required RAM.
So far, it looks like the only legitmate argument against Apple is the price, unless you're a hard-core PC gamer that has to have this second's latest release. Going after used and refurbished Apple machines lowers the price gap a bit, and you can sometime score "free" programs that people forgot to remove before selling you the machine.
Hope this helps.