Mac - Fantasy or Reality?

So, I have finally given back the mac that I had been using and now I am using the normal desktop pc at work. How was the experience? It was absolutely brilliant and absolutely rubbish.

The absolutely brilliant things were the incredibly impressive fast boot up, the dashboard with the very very useful snippet utility, the coverflow was actually incredibly useful, the rock solid 'it's not going to crash' feeling, the different but clean look compared to the droll of windows, the ease in outputting most things to PDF without a hitch or crash. Such bliss it was.

The absolute rubbish was the fact that setting up mail accounts was infuriating as the setup procedures were all geared towards PC, so I had to guess which jargon and terms referred to what, which was a security nightmare. Not to mention the times where it seemed like it was checking the mail forever when other times it was a snap.

Then there were the printer drivers that were OSX compatible but had trivial menus in order to get to the required printer setting e.g. color and mono. Laser printers were no problem, but any other printer and you lose functions such as checking how much ink was left and other features.

Also some of the fonts didn't correspond to the PC and some of the web pages didn't look the same as on a PC and sometimes the website pages wouldn't even open because it needed iexplorer. Not to mention the nagging feeling, do I need to open it on the PC just to see if it's going to look ok?

Files that were saved wouldn't open and when they did open, they didn't look right and then there was the utter nonsense when OSX decides to write hidden junk or temp files to your USB when you transfer files.

Critical online apps refused to run on a mac even when using the recommended alternative browser, especially when filling in online data forms where some fields would simply disappear or confirmation buttons would become blank for no reason.

Open source software that had to be compiled and took hours and looked horrible, where as on the PC it was just a simple setup.exe file.

I can see myself using it at home for personal use, but for business that deals with anything financial or international, it's a non-starter.

Still, I want to buy one, and the price is not as expensive as everyone makes it out to be. However, I'm stumbling as it just feels like I'm paying extra for the brand name when currently I can get away with those cheap deals on PC's. Besides, nobody pays RRP for PC's do they?