Here are a few of the reasons Macs rule.  I really love these things so I would greatly appreciate it if you would e-mail me with any that you might have.

• The Mac OS logo is cooler looking than all the others
• Plug 'n' Play works on a Mac--installation in minutes, not days
• 40 viruses, not 8000
• In about seven years of owning Macs, not one crash
• AUTOEXEC.BAT
• CONFIG.SYS
• If there's a problem, drop six inches onto a hard surface :-)
• Intel uses Macs
• PC Week uses Macs
• The cool "waah" sound at startup.
• True 32-bit, baby!
• All drives show up on the desktop
• The spiffy looking interface
• All communist dictators like MS-DOS
• No one says "I work on a Mac at the office but I have a PC at home because
      it's so much fun to use.
                                                                 -MacAddict
• "The "W" in Windows stands for waiting"
                                                                 -MacAddict
• Star Wars Special Edition - made on a Mac
• Iraqis primarily used Windows 3.1 version of Minesweeper to plan out
      invasion of Kuwait
• Baloney sandwiches taste better in front of a Mac
• "A 486 works great-as a flower press"
                                                                -MacAddict
• Bill Gates' mansion was designed on a Mac
• If you have a paperclip, you can probably fix your Mac
• Macs don't have the infamous Windows key to accidentally hit and throw you
      out of your application into Windows, often causing the program to freeze
• No disappearing "Start" bar
• FREE speech recognition software (as opposed to the less sophisticated,
      $300 system as offered by Microsoft)
• Uninstalling sucks in Windows 3.1 and 95
• The first Pentium commercials were done on (pre-Power PC!!) Macs since they
      couldn't get PC's to perform at that speed.
• Apple servers are about three times faster than Win NT 4.0 servers with
      equivalent clock speed processors
• Death Star Security ran on a Windows 95 computer
• Macs are the #1 computers in Japan and Canada
• Apple is the largest multimedia computer manufacturer in the world with
      18.8% of the market.
• Windows 95 requires illegal narcotics in order to enjoy it's graphical
      interface.
• None of those Internet Explorer "exploding desktop" bugs.
• Macintosh (and so will the NeXtstep/Mac OS) is one of the Operating Systems
      dedicated to the CHRP (Common Hardware Reference Platform), now called PPCP
      (Power PC Platform), which will make computers cheaper and more compatible.
   
• "DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and
      millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million
      machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that
      cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not
      denote a higher life form."
                                            -New York Times, November 26, 1991
  
• A single port for all keyboards and pointing devices.
• "All Macs have those great little icons over the ports."
• Booting from CD-ROM
• Plug-and-play hard disk installation - plug it in and turn it on
• Small, convenient connectors for printers and modems.
• You can plug your mouse right into the keyboard.
• Cool six-color logo.
• The Mac pioneered use of 3.5-inch disks.
• WYSIWYG
• First human interface guide. Apple was the first to take human interface seriously enough to teach its developers how to make easy-to-use applications.
• Virtually every connector on a Macintosh is unique, so it's hard to plug something into the wrong port.
• PowerBooks. The first laptops to feature palm rests and an integrated trackball.
• PhoneNet. Simple, inexpensive networks exist most places there are multiple Macs.
• Apple Guide. Interactive, contextual help built into the system is a great thing.
• Cut, Copy and Paste/the Clipboard. Let's not forget the simple stuff - the Mac was the first personal computer to make the power of Cut, Copy, and Paste immediately accessible. Further, data that was cut or copied could be moved between applications, even in the old days.
• Drag and drop system extensions. To add functionality to your Mac, you just drag the components to your System Folder, drop them there, and let the machine sort it out. There's no messing with configuration or initialization files, interrupts or memory locations.
• Long file names since 1984.
• Multiple monitors with a contiguous, extended desktop (or mirroring on PowerBooks). Nothing beats a multiple monitor setup.
• One (and only one) menubar.
• Long file names on CD-ROMs (Windows CD-ROMs use the ISO 9660 format which is limited to eight character file names, even with Windows 95.)
• Disk First Aid. Apple has shipped basic, user friendly disk diagnostic software with every Mac since System 6.
• Graphing Calculator. What a cool demo.
• QuickDraw 3D
• The active System Folder has a special icon that appears automatically. If you have multiple systems installed on other platforms, determining which one is running is never as straightforward.
• User-configurable Apple Menu.
• Key Caps. You don't have to type weird codes to get upper-ASCII special characters.
• Because when you copy a file onto your hard drive, you don't have to create an icon, and then type in the full path name of your file, and then type the full path name of it's application, in order to be able to click on it and make it run.
• First computer on which you virtual desktop could be as messy as your real desktop.
• You can run a Mac from RAM disk.
• Built-in sound, with no need to install, configure, or troubleshoot a "SoundWhacker" card.
• The original LaserWriter. Even at $7,000, this machine gave birth to desktop publishing as much as anything else.
• RISC. Gotta love that speed.
• Transition to PowerPC. No other computing platform has attempted such a dramatic shift in its hardware architecture, let alone accomplished it so smoothly.
• Apple's surprisingly good Internet presence.
• Flying Toasters. Frivolous or not, they became big business.
• Image editing - Photoshop appeared first on the Mac and virtually gave birth to the digital image industry.
• Some Macintosh models have excellent Easter Eggs. The SE/30 has an Engineer Hall of Fame burned in its ROMs; the Mac SE, IIci, and IIfx have pictures of the development team buried inside. Want more ?
• The San Francisco font. In the early days, this crazy bitmapped font best demonstrated the power of the Macintosh for many people. "Sure, you can print a note on your computer, but can you print a ransom note?"
• Disinfectant
• Eudora
• Fetch
• ClarisWorks
• PlainTalk
• About This Macintosh tells you your system version, how much memory is available and how much memory is being used, and it's built right into the Finder.
• Customizable icons. Just paste into the Get Info dialog box.
• Macintosh Drag & Drop
• Multiple, selectable boot drives. They make testing, troubleshooting, and recovery far easier.
• QuickTime
• QuickTime VR
• QuickDraw GX
• The first machine that could have a Font menu so long it would drop through your floor.
• Aliases that work, as opposed to Shortcuts that don't.
• Non-segmented memory. "You never need to understand or cope with the 'lower 640K' or irritating differences between extended and expanded memory.
• You don't have to know what a pathname is.
• Built-in Ethernet
• Power key on the keyboard where you can reach it really easily.
• Relatively standardized batteries for PowerBooks. In the PC world one manufacturer can ship laptops using dozens of different battery types.
• The Apple Tech Info Library
• First completely standardized bitmap display.
• The Chicago font. It's everywhere.
• The Mac Classic could boot from ROM.
• You can talk people through the Macintosh on the phone, including your parents.
• I have to give credit for much of the info. on this page to Marc Messer who's web page, Marc's Mac Advocacy Page, was the source for these reasons. 

 

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