• If you deal with Macs at work, you can bring your applications home and run them on your PC. There are a variety of DTP and graphics applications that only run on Macs, or, you may only have access to a Mac version of an application.
• If you've never used a Mac, you'll get to taste a bit of the MacOS interface, and be able to have a pretty good first hand feel for whether or not it sucks, which is a bit more realistic than just listening to every other die-hard PC user, most of whom have never used decent Macs (except maybe Apple IIe's in school).
• You decided to join the rest of the world, replaced your Mac with a PC, and still have a bunch of good Mac software lurking about.

Introduction to Mac Emulation
By Phil

But what is emulation? And why bother emulating a Mac?

First things first. The concept of emulation basically consists of finding a way to make your hardware to run software that wasn't actually written for it. An emulator simulates the native environment in which the software runs by acting as an interpreter between hardware and software.

But why emulate a Mac? There are many reasons for that, such as to increase your range of software options. There are several wonderful programs that were written specifically for the Mac (even if there are similar programs for the PC, sometimes they're just not as good as the Mac alternative).

The Macintosh environment is also far better for introducing beginners to computers. Unlike the PC, almost everything in the Mac is very straight-forward. Even configuring the operating system is easy enough for less experienced users to do. Not to mention the fact that with the Mac emulator, you eliminate the fear that the user has of damaging the computer, which is one important psychological barrier that new users must overcome.

To test if the Macintosh environment is really more suitable for beginners, I left my mother using it for a few minutes. Although she has been a computer user for more than 3 years, she still has quite some difficulty in her relationship with Windows. However, in about half an hour, she was already making more progress (in some areas) on the MacOS than in Windows. She loved the intuitive and interactive help guide, and the straight-forward interface. She has even considered buying a Mac for herself.

Even if you don't find reason enough to use MacOS, I guarantee that it'll be a lot of fun, and a good opportunity for you to learn more about another computer platform.