I'm a Mac systems administrator and programmer and I have dealings with opinionated and ignorant Windows users from time to time. They typically have no experience with Mac OS X and tend to project their own experiences (of fragile and insecure systems) onto the Mac platform. They also fail to see that the PC market is so disparate that one Windows user's experience can not be generalized as the common experience for all Windows users. We Mac users have a different experience. When I read that the Mac is "more creative and less technical", I know exactly what you mean. That's my experience too. In my opinion the user interface may be a large part it but this may be debated. After all we've seen poor interfaces become accepted and their limitations overcome with practice (take the QWERTY keyboard as an example). I think more compelling reasons for Mac's superiority in creative fields are its platform integration and reliability. Apple integrates the hardware and software to work together as a single platform. This gives us the common Mac experience. Add to this the Mac's lack of vulnerabilities that commonly plague Windows and its robust UNIX subsystem and you have an extremely reliable and rock-solid computer. These are the things that ultimately give credence to your statement. I also like to think that Apple's GUI guidelines and Aqua, by contributing intuitive and joyful interfaces, contribute to one's productivity as well.