What's with Apple's commercials?

[ComradeNikolai]

Originally Posted by Thermal

[...] for no gain in either speed, or ease of use. [...]

Apple could gain a much larger market share if they would allow OSX to be installed on a "PC". [...]

I would not recieve any more security from using OSX than Windows. I run Avast!, Spybot and Adaware, those three programs (along with simply running the windows firewall) has kept me from recieving any high threat malware, as it simply just gets detected on download. [...]

I'm going to address these point by point.
First, ease of use. Macs have a definite improvement in ease of use; one may not notice it right away because one is used to Windows, but after adjustment, it is definitely easier to use. I'll address speed later.
Second, security. Sure, you have your system completely locked down, but you require three programs PLUS a firewall to keep it secured; most Mac users I've talked to have no issues, even with torrenting, and they run absolutely no security software.

Now onto speed: I found this very interesting test. On the desktop test, they found that all their different program launches (especially the stress test) were faster on the Mac. Start up times were significantly different: it was the difference between 28.7 seconds (Mac) and 1 minute 13 seconds (MS). Shutdown was the difference was 4.0 seconds (Mac) and 44.3 seconds. These differences persisted for both laptops and desktops and the computers had similar specs. The Macs even ran Vista more quickly than the PCs.
Note: in that benchmark test, the Macs were paired against equally priced or more expensive PCs.

Now please explain: why do you feel there is significantly worse performance in Macs?