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Personally, I feel nothing beats a Mac for overall software development, especially if you are a full stack developer and you like to be able to use all kinds o

by sgt 8y ago

Personally, I feel nothing beats a Mac for overall software development, especially if you are a full stack developer and you like to be able to use all kinds of tools if need be. I see a lot of people like the ThinkPads and I'm sure they are great, but the secret sauce is not just the machine, but the OS, and macOS is still glorious (it's a UNIX desktop OS!) I'm not going to tell anyone they must use a Mac, but generally if I see a room full of developers, 90% of them will have Macs. Surely that says something. Same thing with students. Maybe it's different in other countries, but I think this is the norm in both the US and Europe at the very least.

croo 8y ago
"I'm not going to tell anyone they must use a Mac, but generally if I see a room full of developers, 90% of them will have Macs. Surely that says something" I did not use Mac yet and would like to try it someday. But I know a quite profane proverb for this thinking: "eat shit, ten million fly cannot be wrong" I have never seen a developer with Mac in my life - only managers. Developers use highest grade of ThinkPads Dells and HP so consider this to be more of a cultural thing around your country/part of world.
- sgt 8y ago
  That's interesting. Where are you located?