To be honest, until you’ve owned a Macbook or an iMac and done a full life cycle on one, it is hard to understand the ‘value’ of them – I couldn’t see it but I wanted one anyway and after we made the switch to Apple at work I figured ‘why not’. Haven’t looked back. I’ve got colleagues doing high end video work on 5+ year old Macbook Pros and they just keep going on. Some have been planning to upgrade for a couple of years now ‘once it dies’, but they don’t.
Running a 2009 Macbook Pro and iMac here doing graphics and video work, stuck some new RAM in both this year (which was ridiculously easy to do, less faff than a PC even), that’ll do for another 3 years…