Ahhh yes, but I don't drink much.
Macs are pure genius I have to admit. As soon as I feasibly can I am going to consign FRED to Checkers games desires and buy myself a G5 Imac... Pure drool factor. Will probably upgrade the cute lil iBook after the Intel change over and definitely want either a Nano or a new full power iPod.
I am a convert.
Bino's (SM's looking very well) I can't answer your q re ye olde anciente DOS word stuff. Office for Mac is amazing though. Incredibly stable and easy to use programme. Note, very few if any viruses are written for the mac.
Yes they are a tad on the exy side but you do get what you pay for. With a mac it just works. If you're a tinkerer and like to fiddle with graphics cards and the like and the following bun fight with getting the drivers to work then you'll find the mac.. well, boring. However, if you like things to work as advertised... mac's the go. No question.
Note, the laptops (eg the ibook) bang for buck wise is bloody hard to beat.