You can be as wonky as you want to with a Mac. The command line interface is fun if you know unix commands. Nice thing is, you don't have to. They just work.
We have a new MacBook in-house as well as the wife's iPad and a 98 vintage tower that is now retired to file storage and hasn't shut down except for power outages and hard drive upgrades since it was new in the box. Son is a sophomore in college and still using the MacBook he bought his junior year in high school. He runs Windows on it when necessary for GIS mapping applications.
I prefer the 2002 G4 17in. Powerbook I'm typing this on, but I'm going to replace it soon with a MacBook with a retina display and flash hard disk. To me, when you look at all the independent PC repair people there are who are making some sort of a living, and compare that to the nearly non-existent indy Mac techs, the tale is told. They just work.

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