The problem is from the non-Mac perspective is that there have been decades worth of Mac users gloating about how good Macs long before they actually were.I usually find people that go off about someone else using a mac or mac related products are very narrow minded or cant be bothered to experience something a little different. You want different though try linux now thats a learning curve.
When I did a stint in retail, Mac users were the biggest pains in the arse... they'd come into a clearly PC oriented store and waste half an hour of your time whinging about why we didn't have Macs (Apple have actually been a difficult company to sell for in the past) and how they are better to do some particular function that most people never cared less about.That tends to piss the PC users off.... especially because most of said Mac users really don't understand computers and have no grasp of what's really going on because they've been wrapped in cotton wool like Mac users tend to be.
Personally I don't mind Macs (and have owned one and made the odd hackintosh and otherwise been using Apple machines since the 80s) ... I support dozens of them. It's just the majority of their users really do have their heads up their asses... especially when they need to be told that we can't provide X piece of software, and no they can't access a specific windows only service and they get all uppity despite being the ones who insisted that they just had to have that Mac at twice the cost of the fully supported Windows PC lol all on the basis that the either have a Mac at home... or they had to have it because it was the most expensive and as we all apparently know the most expensive is the best!
The crazy thing about linux being a learning curve.... OS X is built on UNIX... specifically FreeBSD. Bonus points for getting your head around FreeBSD... even a lot of Linux guys don't quite grasp the BSDs which I find odd, they're so much cooler than Linux.. the fact that Apple took the FreeBSD kernel and went down the Darwin path is a fair indicator of just how damn solid it is.