Hmmm, I never really pay attention to any new releases or marketing so I don't see any of the smugness of Apple.
Except for the few Apple fanboys, but those are as annoying as fanboys of just about anything.
That said, my Macbook works fine and all the programs on it do so too.
Although I have to admit that I have yet to even really look at InDesign, Dreamweaver, Illustrator or all the other Adobe programs I got with it.
Personally my main problem with Apple is just that their stuff is too expensive and that games don't work on OS X.
But on the plus side, OS X feels a lot smoother than windows and it looks a lot better.
Also, the Apple keyboard is awesome. I even have one for my PC.