Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

This is silly too

"Can you imagine the parents at home trying to right click, eject a floppy, let alone install a driver or use Command Line Interface? Sorry, MAC isn't practical ..."

Apple is known for its world class support which consistently is better than Dell, and worlds above IBM (and yes I used to work for IBM).

Apple is also known for its usability. (You dont HAVE to install driveers and use the command line, now using the command line is cool with OS-X because its BSD and you get bash with grep, sed, awk, etc, but you never have to use it).

And if you really think a parent wont be able to figure out a Mac you are really mistaken. Thats the point, it works, its intuitive, its trivial.

My house is mostly "PC" - if by that you mean Windows x86. I do have several x86 Linux machines, and the kids have PowerPC iMacs with OSX (because they were dirt cheap on eBay). By far the easiest to use of the lot is Mac OSX. The "kid" machines wind up getting used by everyone because they work so well and are so easy.

There are reasons not to pick Macs, sure, they cost more up front, they dont run as much software (mostly an issue with games) and so on, but usability and support are exactly reasons FOR USING macs (not reasons not to).