Umm actually I didnt think anybody was stupid. I was questioning my own intelligence (and/or coolness) in fact since I could not fathom paying that extra price

Umm actually I didnt think anybody was stupid. I was questioning my own intelligence (and/or coolness) in fact since I could not fathom paying that extra price for reduced power (last I checked the MBPs werent even the real quad cores!). I was just curious as to what proportion of developers were being attracted to macs for their coolness vs the ability to get into the apple market. I had a feeling it was the coolness (given unix + nice UI) but wasnt sure if it was more compelling than an Ubuntu (atleast the latest incarnation of it).