You know, I'd say any other kind of worship done outside of any religious means is probably over the line.
I normally stay out of the whole "Apple fanboy / hateboy" debate. It's irrelavant that people become obsessed with a tool, or to the contrary, become obsessed with hating it and bashing it as if it has no merit.
I've been an art director for 3 years. The projects I work on include package design, billboards, catalogs... web design/development, photography and 3D modeling... oh don't forget motion graphics.... they all require a fast, dynamic and most importantly STABLE environment or aka Operating system.
I used PC's for a long time... in fact my whole life, until I began using adobe CS 2,3,4,5 master collections and maxing out consumer PC's like it was going out of style. Then it quickly became evident why most, not all, creative professionals use apple products. Not iMacs, although it is possible, but I'm talking about a professional workstation such as a mac pro 8 core with 8g or + ram, and serious storage and a nice graphics card. No... it's not cheap, it's expensive. That's why it's a professional workstation, like a 1D is a professional DSLR. I have the computer described here, and it's been going strong for 4 years without A SINGLE issue. I've upgraded hard drives, ram, and 2 operating systems. Did I mention I run Autodesk 3Ds Max in windows xp through a simple hard drive partition? all from the same OS?
Anyway, I'm not going to write an essay, although I got pretty close already. I just have to point out that computers have to be a fit for the end user, and as a professional designer / art director... there is no PC on the market that will hold up for me as steady and as long as an apple, (running creative software), without serious maintenance, defragmenting, and of course.... virus software. But I am sure there are people that can say they opposite from their experience... and I would never try to argue personal experience over opinion. Thats just my 2Cents. I also hate fanboys, And the people who are quick to hate on the "fanboys"...
It's like people complaining about politics... when they aren't registered to vote....