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I'm just asking if you think macs are good enough and would  you recommend them to someone or use them yourself.

I do.

Ever since I began recommending them to family and close friends, the time I've spent having to do tech support for them has dropped from damned near constantly, to almost nothing (it's down to one sister now, and my missus who insists on using XP in her laptop).

My relatively ancient dual G5 PowerMac can run whatever the hell I want it to, applications-wise. Being five years old, maybe it's time to move to something else (I already have a Hackintosh running on a Core Duo, but I was thinking something a bit more portable this time, and a MacBookPro would fill that bill nicely).

You can build your own PC-based computer for cheaper - but you get to eat the tech support for it, and don't scrimp on the quality when you do.

You can get a Dell or HP with the same specs as a Mac - for about the same prices, and with a lot of cheap plastic holding it together.

As for the OS? Well, Windows will require you to run an A/V or two (preferably two, because one never really catches everything), it will require (even with 7) a decent cleaner utility, and a decent defrag utility, which contribute to slowdowns and time spent maintaining them.

Linux would be my best OS choice, but apparently few people in the CG realm want to build apps for it without charging a ton of money (e.g. Shake, Maya, etc), or requiring an emulation layer.

Note that I have no particular hatred for any OS... just that there are better ones out there. At work, Windows is just fine with me - I make a very decent living off of keeping it running on both client and server. OTOH, at home, I prefer machines that just run, with little intervention on my part (unless I feel like tinkering).