try to use an apple product first. I had the same disdain for apple as overpriced ripoff.
Then got the iphone, and that changed everything, websites actually work, emails are easy to check, all the apps you can download was amazing, i can check my stocks and do trades. Compared to the piece of shit windows mobile it was light years ahead. Basically all the functions work, easily.
Then decided to do some iphone development and needed a new laptop, so got a mac book pro, that changed everything AGAIN. It may not look like much for people who never used an apple product, but once you do for a while you realize why they are so successful, it's not just the cool looks but functionality and the human interface aspect they got it down to a science. Like the touchpad on macbook pro, or when you boot up for the first time, everything just works!
Now i have a iphone, a mac mini hooked to my tv, the macbook pro as laptop, ipad. Only reason my desktop is not an apple is their graphic card isnt powerful enough for the latest pc games.