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Originally Posted by mineistaken
Its strange when web developer (programmer not graphic designer) chooses apple product over anything else
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Is that a serious statement? OS X is the best *nix development environment there is, especially for laptops. Everything "just works" without any of the fucking around trying to get linux to work on a laptop, plus you get all the desktop productivity stuff (proper Office, Quickbooks, native Photoshop etc.) that you need from time to time with a slick, well designed desktop interface. OS X gets out of the way so you can actually focus on work.
For precise testing and staging before pushing to production you can use VMs - which you would probably do on linux in any case, because your dev environment isn't going to exactly match your production environment anyway.
A friend of mine is a security researcher at Google, and he reckons it's 60/40 OS X vs linux in engineering.