I have to say I like my Macbook much better then the other two laptops I had before.
I don't hate the hardware, though I think it's way overpriced. OS X and all the steaming piles of **** they call "applications" are so hobbled by trying to be simple that they also aren't up to handling serious tasks. While the end life of hard drives are not generally graceful, at least with PCs if I can get it limping along I can probably save what is needed. The support community for PCs is also way more robust, and not filled with people who just say "you don't need to worry about that with a mac."