I love the simpler operating system/GUI. MacOS is easy to use and learn. Windows, on the other hand, gets more complicated and unwieldy with every release. That's not to say that a Mac is universally better than a Windows-powered PC. I've grown up with DOS and Windows but, after using a Mac for the first time at work for the past six months, I prefer Mac. The MacBook Pro hardware is superior to any PC I've ever used, and that includes my DELL Precision M4800, which is a nice workstation PC laptop. MacOS is cleaner than Windows and less complicated. The Retina display is amazing! The MacBook runs more smoothly for everything I've done, and many peripheral connectivity issues I've had with Windows have disappeared with the MacOS. For example, I have a nice Pioneer portable speaker that acts as a Wi-Fi (not Bluetooth) accessible speaker on my local network. I could not get it to reliably connect in any version of Windows since Windows 7. However, as soon as I got the Mac set up and ready to go, AirPlay found the Pioneer speaker on my network and suggested I use it. It just worked. And it works reliably. To use it with Windows I have been forced to connect it with a cable. Of course, the Mac experience in general is intended to be clean, and that means no cables and wires, or at least as few as possible and practical. I'm thrilled. The MacBook Pro is the best computer upgrade decision I have ever made.