Because Leuk set me up, here’s my statement for the MacNotes raffle:

I’ve had my first encounter with a Mac around 2000, and had to support them. OS X was just taking his first steps, and, honestly: it rocked and sucked at the same time. Most of the Macs we supported were still running OS 9, though, which sucked even more. We discontinued that support, and I stopped playing with Macs for quite a while, before I bought my first Mac, a ‘Late 2004 14,1″ iBook G4′ – actually the same model that Leuk bought. OS X was stable and cool by now, and the hardware…I can’t really recall how many raving reviews I wrote. I quickly became a Mac addict and religiously followed any Keynote…

I updated to a MacBook in January 2007, and passed the iBook on to a friend, who bought it for his mom. Even she, at 50+, has had no problem in learning her way around the system. The iBook isnt’ the fastest notebook, but still does it’s daily work without even starting the fan.
My MacBook is a bit louder, much faster, but the hardware just evolved, no drastic changes, and is still the best product on the market. Except for the unibody MacBooks, of course. It’s fast, reliable, and the OS is a dream.

And that’s the short version of why I ♥ my Mac.