"I use Linux mainly because of its ease of use in terms of development. I would be interested in hearing your arguments for the Mac." I used linux on a Thinkpa

"I use Linux mainly because of its ease of use in terms of development. I would be interested in hearing your arguments for the Mac." I used linux on a Thinkpad T41 for years. The problems are not so much the real development stuff, more about the things that you have to do apart from that, like cinerama mode for an external screen (took me several attempts with the configuration file), make beamers work, wireless (cough), permanent fan noise you want to get rid of but the power management did not work, kde that tries to copy windows ("you have old files on your destop", "miranda apeared in skype" while you try to give a presentation ) and thus is not usable IMHO (I used window maker which is fine), no decent office suite (open office is a copy of MS office but 10 years behind), software you just want to try, but have to compile, shared libraries problems, no bootable backup, no first class image manipulating software (gimp just sucks compared to photoshop), ... Is that sufficient? Well, of course, this is all fixed in the latest version ;O) and everything has been solved by someone - get the point? Linux is a very stable and reliable system though, once you have installed an configured it properly. But Mac OS is that too, and configuring it is quick and easy. I am much more concerned about Apples latest iCloud stuff and about privacy on Macs. Thought already about using linux again. But productivity is certainly much higher on Macs.