When my PC broke down a few weeks back, I decided to give a mac a try. The majority of people I know use macs and love them, and I've had macs in the past and always thought they were pretty decent. I guess the main benefit of this mac over a PC, in my opinion, is the size. It's a small machine, very portable and easy to carry with you. For that reason alone, I will give it 3-stars. That said, I am pretty shocked at how limited the Mac interface feels at this point. It hasn't changed at all. It feels so far behind on functionality. A lot of the software is more limited for mac. There are things I could breeze through on my PC & I struggle to find the functionality on the mac. Some of it, I am convinced doesn't exist. A lot of software is made for PC and there are plugins and extensions, and everything works together flawlessly. I guess you get used to whatever you've got, but at this point, I haven't seen much benefit in this mac, aside from it being more "petite". I've actually had some really slow processing when doing regular work in Adobe software, really, really slow. The kind of speed my OLD, old, old PC would experience. How can a brand new, modern, computer, run like that? I am not the biggest fan of this computer, but it is what I decided to get and now I am stuck with it. Hopefully, my experience improves.