Originally Posted by AutumnBH

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.

Originally Posted by machinegunkelly

you can boot to any os, making them real nice to dev on.

The windows guys In the office always have to ask me to pull shit up so they can verify it works on mac.... I Never need to ask them,I just load up winxp, win7 inside osx and never need them to verify anything

Originally Posted by pornopete

Quoted for truth.

I have a powerful unix kernal and the best desktop environment rolled into one. Why would I ever want to use windows again?

Originally Posted by pornopete

You cannot be more wrong.

Personally I cannot not understand why anybody, other than a gamer, would want to use anything else.

You can develop with OSX as if you were working right on your server. Everything works pretty much as the same as it does on a web server, and you have a beautiful desktop to work with which makes working so much easier.

Originally Posted by mOrrI

They are nice... but fucking expensive :D