> Nobody wrote any articles about how, actually, real work on a Mac is possible.

Yes they did. Back then Apple also did something called "advertising" to try and convince enterprise users that Macs could be used in a business environment.

In more recent times they resorted to a very petty form of advertisement that, by way of direct, cherry picked comparison points, they tried to convince everybody that Macs were just as good as Windows PCs. At that time there were tons of articles commissioned to push the same point and even whole websites.

It was never really true though and it still isn't. Macs were only any good for certain workloads, just like the iPad, and only if you could look past their wonky UI and hardware design choices.