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Do you need Apple specific software? If not, go with the gear at a good price that lasts long. I had a Dell business grade laptop, Compaq, and a 13" macbook pro
by wildmXranat 16y ago
Do you need Apple specific software? If not, go with the gear at a good price that lasts long. I had a Dell business grade laptop, Compaq, and a 13" macbook pro. Dell died twice and was repaired on their dime, Compaq lasted 8 years and still works except the sound card burning out, and my 3 year old macbook, is a-ok as well. Compaq was $1150, Dell was $1500, and the MBP was $1350.
For my software dev, all of them worked well. For gaming, they all sucked.
- calloc 16y agoI do my software Dev on Mac OS X. I am a backend systems software engineer working on daemons that run in the background on top of FreeBSD. Mac OS X helps since it is so similar to FreeBSD it makes it easy for me to test on my own laptop, and I have access to all of the tools I need to do my job in Terminal, such as mercurial, python, easy to install open source software using MacPorts and whatnot. On Windows I would have to dick around with msys, and cygwin, also I would be vastly less efficient because of having to deal with various inconsistencies and possible issues because the code I just wrote might not compile correctly on a POSIX system.