> And while that sacrifices openness, most people buying laptops just don't care. This is it in a nutshell. I used Linux as my web development platform because

> And while that sacrifices openness, most people buying laptops just don't care. This is it in a nutshell. I used Linux as my web development platform because I could immerse myself in Unix on both the server and client (Something you still can't do well in Windows FWIW). When OS X moved to Intel, suddenly I could live and breath something very close to my server side Linux setup on my desktop and have a fuss-free OS. Open is nice, but performance & just being able to get my job done effectively is much more important.