I'm a PC user but I want to get a new Mac

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Well here is a little of my story.First of all I was one of the early microcomputer users having a HP-67 programmable calculator in 1975.Steve Wozniak had a HP-65(previous model)
and he too was a member of the HP-65 users group before he made the Apple 1.Wozniak also worked at HP in the progammable calculator division.I programmed in Fortran 4 on a I.B.M. 360 mainframe in High School with those ridiculous 80 column Punch Cards.I also designed and built lots of electronic devices like a Class 4 Rhodamine 6G chemical Laser with a 3.6 megawatt Pulsed Powers supply and other fun things like a ultrasonic transmitter and reciever scanner in addition to digital circuits when I was a teenager.I really love ultra high voltage,ultra high amperage nanosecond circuitry and its secret implentations.
Now I missed the Apple 2 era because they came out after I graduated High School.I've had several microcomputers in the 1980's like the HP-75,Timex Sinclair 2068 and the Commodore Amiga.A friend of mine got me back into computers when he taught me MS-DOS on a hand me down used 486 class I.B.M. PS/1(it had Windows 3.1 installed on it)in 1998.Later in 1999 I purchased a Pentium 2 class machine and had an up to date PC for the first time.I had also got into configuring,repairing and selling PC's for some extra pocket change cash.
I built and own several newer PC's like a Athlon 1 Ghz system in Jan 2001 and a 3.2 Ghz Pentium 4 Class machine that I built in 2004.I also have built and own a 1.7 Ghz Celeron system.
Well my friend always cracked jokes about the Macintosh and how useless and impractical it was in addition to the platform not having much software that can run on it.
I saw a old Macintosh Classic in a thrift store and purchased it.I recognized that it was a old machine but was impressed with the Mac OS GUI and how it compared to Windows 3.0 or Windows 3.1 at that time.I also saw how the Macintosh GUI OS came out in 1984 and Windows 1.0 was a complete joke in 1985.Microsoft Windows took until 1995 to nearly copy how the Mac OS worked.I found a lot more Compact Macs in thrift stores and repaired 2 pre 6000 series 1983 logic board original Macintosh's.I found great books about the history of the Macintosh like Insanely Great by Steven Levy and just loved the fantastic history and technology of the Macintosh.Both me and my PC friend watched the Pirates of Silicon Valley(TNT original movie) but I too noticed a lot of the simplification and errors of this short drama.I had a Sept 1977 Scientific American magazine that had a article about the Xerox Alto and PARC written by Alan Kay.So I just love the history about the development of the GUI,the Mouse,Hypertext,Networking,Bitmapping the Mouse and especially the greatest inventor of some of these technologies Douglas Englebart who in December 1969 demonstrated 2 GUI OS based machines with mouse and chorded keyes networked machines 40 miles apart and use Video teleconfrencing at the Augmentation Research Center at the Stanford Research Intstitute under funding by DARPA.
I also purchased some more used Macs like a a Performa 636 a 638 and a Power PC 6500.I also found a shrink wrapped Mac OS 9 in a thrift store for $10.Now I've never owned a new Mac or Apple computer but my Uncle had several Apple 2 machines.When my PC friend critisized the Mac I was intrigued and became a Mac and Apple computer defender and lover.I saw a video of Steve Jobs demonstrating a NeXT Machine and noticed how similar it was to the Mac OSX operating system that I've seen on newer Macs in my local CompUSA.Wow NeXT was truly amazing at that time(Yes I know the WWW was invented on a NeXT Machine.
One thing I've noticed that is a constant hassle with security issues on a PC is the extreme extent to which a Microsoft Operating System PC user has to protect his system from attacks on the Internet.As a PC user I've seriously had to install 5 or 6 VALID(and there are 100's of fake) Anti Spyware programs on a PC to HOPEFULLY

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Nice to hear your story.