Well I dunno....
Just bought the other 'alf (the ultimate technophobe) a Macbook when her old lappy died and she's taken to it like a duck to water. Up and doing 'er thing quite happily with no help from me at all (I did set up the wireless network tho').
Formatting the HDD on the lappy and installing Feisty revived it remarkably (Windows just wouldn't reinstall successfully, probably because of the manufacturers hidden partition). WiFi was a tit though - took me all of an hour.
I'm not a Gnome fan, but the Mac looks very gnomey.
And the Macbook is soooo sexy
Anything that runs *nix can't be too bad...