Apple pcs and notebooks are very elegant and offer a high level of aesthetics compared to standard hardware, but what about using a mac for development.
Experience with a macbook pro has proved that mac's are excellent for development.Want a vague proof of this, just take a look at conference videos, most serious developers use macs.And its just not for the aesthetics but there are heavier reasons for this.
Historically linux was the choice environment for many.The popularity of linux is waning due to recurrent issues involving GUI systems and the classic old drivers problem.Its just a pain that should be abstracted, and this is what mac osx does best.The UI is clean and elegant and you still get the power of the unix shell.
The write once run everywhere nature of web apps has also promoted the use of osx.Due to the fact that you can create a web app from any on any operating system that will be available to any system with a browser, this has removed the constraint of having to develop on a particular environment.Thus developers are free to choose which system provides the best user experience, and apple is well known for this.
A general trend I have noted is that most development software and library creators tend to cater for mac users since its a fact that many debs are on that platform.
Historically linux was the choice environment for many.The popularity of linux is waning due to recurrent issues involving GUI systems and the classic old drivers problem.Its just a pain that should be abstracted, and this is what mac osx does best.The UI is clean and elegant and you still get the power of the unix shell.
The write once run everywhere nature of web apps has also promoted the use of osx.Due to the fact that you can create a web app from any on any operating system that will be available to any system with a browser, this has removed the constraint of having to develop on a particular environment.Thus developers are free to choose which system provides the best user experience, and apple is well known for this.
A general trend I have noted is that most development software and library creators tend to cater for mac users since its a fact that many debs are on that platform.
