There's the problem. You had to modify it. When you have to modify an os right from the beginning in order to make it useable, it is fail.
I have been fully switched over to a macbook pro for a year now with mac osx and I have to say that I prefer the mac osx over any type of windows. My roommate even have an Alienware with win 7 for gaming that neither one of us uses sitting in a corner gathering dust. My experience with my first mac osx was fully intuitive and usable right from boot up. The only thing that sucks is the fact that the only real mac antivirus/antimalware clam av is pretty much manual scan only and won't prevent infections, only clean them up afterwards, the few that can infect mac osx I mean.
And to set the record strait, I used to own a first generation iPad and find that the artifisial limitations that is imposed on the iOS turned it into an over expensive toy that I ended up hating before i sold it. Also my roomate bough a macbook air and had it fail twice in the first month before he exchanged it for a macbook pro also. So I an not an apple fanboy, I am a Macbook Pro osx only fan boy. I could care less about any iproducts or airbook products.