"You mention Macs doing the same job being real pricey" -- No, I never said any such thing. I said some software tools that are free on Linux (some programmer's

"You mention Macs doing the same job being real pricey" -- No, I never said any such thing. I said some software tools that are free on Linux (some programmer's editors for example, but a few other little things as well) have rather pricey equivalents on the Mac (unless you can find something on Macports or Brew that will compile on OS X. fdupes, mutt and cmus I must have for example). Also some things demand I use a specific version of OS X, Why should, say for example, an editor, demand I use 10.7? Which I've no intention of using. Why do I need XCode when all I want from out of that is gcc? Not that this is a major ordeal in any way. Mac hardware is slightly pricey but it is very good. I have no gripe whatsoever about that. I never said Mac development was expensive. I said it was slightly more of a faff to set everything up. You mention you've a Linux netbook -- so do I. And here's the thing: it also boots OS X as well and that runs really well on that limited hardware. Maybe even running better than Linux. I also have two proper, actual Macs as well as an AMD based Linux PC and that ended up costing slightly more in the end than a Mac would because of some of its hardware. Go back and read what I said. You're putting words in my mouth.