In one word how would you state your feelings on the Mac?

Over-Hyped. Mac is nice, but nothing is without flaws.

Overpriced..underpowered...Over hyped...........................

Arrogance.

The arrogance is what perturbs me. A company can be proud of it's products without an aura of haughty arrogance.

"Ignorance," "Arrogance," or maybe "Cult"

More accurately, I'd say "Form over function," but that's 3 words.

overpriced (while the market has accepted the price point, I feel it is not worth it because I can build a PC with more features and faster hardware for less money)

They work ok and if they made released a PC version, I would switch when microsoft ends support for windows xp. As it is now, I am not willing to spend so much on a computer with less hardware features and slower.

Apple doesn't need to support everything, just a few modern AMD and intel chipsets

When Apple was trying to come back in 1997-98, they needed to figure out who they were, they needed a message that truly expressed this. They hired a 3rd party advertising firm, TBWAChiatDay, who brought on Ken Segall. Segall had worked with many companies from IBM, AT&T, Intel, and later Dell. He noticed something about Apple, a uniqueness, doing things in ways others just didn't, the thought process was not like the rest of the industry. He soon came to a conclusion, finding a single word that truly expressed Apple: Different. This essentually lead to the campaign "Think Different", which Steve Jobs has been quoted as saying it was more directed to Apple itself than to customers. "Apple had to remember who Apple was" he would say.

"Dell and Apple: It’s night and day, It’s a transactional world Dell lives in. It’s all about numbers. Everything they say about Apple making products for themselves is true. Apple — it’s about changing the world. For everyone else, it’s about the money.” - Ken Segall, 2009, after getting hired by Dell.

So in one word Apple is "Different"

CHOICE.

Why do people put so much time and effort into championing or complaining about a COMPUTER BRAND. Are people really that brand-obsessed? Is it cool to talk about vehicle manufacturers the same way? "I can't believe you drive a Ford/Chevrolet/Toyota/etc... what an unreliable/overhyped/overpriced/etc. vehicle!" (Answer: No, it's just as annoying...)

Buy what you can and what you want and enjoy it. Enjoying it can include telling folks what you have but the knowledge has to dawn on you at some point that everyone else is going to do their own thing. That's the wonder of having choices -- you don't owe anyone an apology or explanation for buying whatever you buy (unless someone else is paying the bills.)

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Mac is much better than the other computers out there.

Insulting.

Apple strives to make their user interfaces as friendly as possible. I feel that in the process, we lose a degree of "connection" with the computer.