Macbook laptops were insanely popular 6-8 years ago. They had the best hardware, well integrated software, and access to the bash shell and all the favorite uni

Macbook laptops were insanely popular 6-8 years ago. They had the best hardware, well integrated software, and access to the bash shell and all the favorite unix utilities. OSX had support for Internet Explorer and Linux didn't really. All of the Ruby on Rails web developers switched to Macbooks at that time. The author sees all of these people using OS X and wonders why they would pick Mac now over Linux now, but that's the wrong question. The reason that everyone is using Macbooks is because everyone picked Apple six years ago. Notice that this thread is full of people who switched to OS X laptops in 2007, but they no longer see the competitive advantage and they're switching back to Linux. http://paulgraham.com/mac.html http://paulgraham.com/mac.html http://paulgraham.com/microsoft.html http://paulgraham.com/microsoft.html