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>I'm not entirely sure why mac laptops have gotten such traction in the dev community Makes sense to me - it's a Unix with big-company support. Up until the la
by GeneralMayhem 12y ago
>I'm not entirely sure why mac laptops have gotten such traction in the dev community
Makes sense to me - it's a Unix with big-company support. Up until the last couple of years, running Linux on a laptop was a nightmare of compatibility and driver issues, and certainly not something most (i.e. non-big-4) companies would want to take on for a corporate fleet.
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoPeople keep saying that Linux is no longer a nightmare, but it often still can be if you have to use an existing, non-custom-built machine that was made for Windows. And if you're going to buy a new machine and have cash to splash, well, the Mac has no hardware issues running OS X.
- digi_owl 12y agoIn all practical terms if the computer is not custom build for Linux or OSX, it is by default custom built for Windows (and a specific version of Windows at that).