Convince me to spend $2,500 on something other than an iMac
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He says development and you write about dreamweaver..... umm
How about these as a few trivial examples
1) Macs have ruby on rails out of the box.
2) Macs have php out of the box
3) Macs have ssh out of the box
Obviously its a matter of what you are developing, but for many things other than Windows applications I have no idea why you wouldn't want to use a Mac.
Dreamweaver, what the fuck? People still use that?
Well, I can switch between windows faster with the trackpad, I have a unix console, the OS gives me a nice 'feeling' that makes me actually enjoy working, less distractions
It's kinda like the OS stays out of your way, so you can focus on doing actual work.
Someone (or multiple people) convinced me not too long ago. And I am glad they did.
I don't think you can blame your sig on the fact that you're using a mac.
You can use one, not sure about two (works on windows as well).
Wow talk about software bloat!
I don't run anything locally, I use a centos development server for mysql and php, so that's all moot. Any serious developer would do the same.
SSH out of the box? god forbid i have to install a 450kb copy of putty on my PC.
If you're developing iPhone apps, you have a point. If you're developing anything else, then you haven't made a very convincing argument. As I said, I happily use both every day. I just don't see any reason why OSX is any better at development than Windows and I'm sick of hearing that bullshit, especially when nobody can give an answer as to why they think it's true.
Without the Adobe suite, Apple would never have gained traction in the graphic design community. It was released on OSX before Windows, mind you. I gave Coda a shot when I started using OSX, Coda didn't support SFTP, Dreamweaver did. Do you use Photoshop?
Glad you could see the humour in it.
Keep going on with your inferior machine bullshit, Apple had ultrabooks 4 fucking YEARS before they existed for PCs.
Dreamweaver. Photoshop. What the fuck dude.
We are talking DEVELOPMENT not DESIGNING.
And yet its 1/3 to 1/2 the size of a Windows 7 install, hmmm
So there is no serious developer who wants to hack out a quick web scraping python script relying on their present IP address (and also without having to go install python). There is no serious developer who wants to work on their app while on a flight. There is no serious developer who likes xcode (as three of a million examples), gotcha.
How's that working for SSH'ing INTO the local machine when you are remote? Just wondering. Yea cygwin is tons of fun isn't it.
Why do you run centos over a windows server? Certainly you can run most web stacks on windows and you're already running windows locally. You do it because for web apps it requires less hacking and bullshit to get things to work they way you want them to. Mac OS X is POSIX compliant. If that doesn't matter to you then it doesn't matter to you.
That is basically what caused Apples failure the first time. Just replace "apps" with "drivers" and it's really failure waiting to happen all over again.
Putty is a steaming pile of shit compared to any native "SSH" (bash) terminal.
Now that I can post again,
So far I'm still set on the iMac. I do run Parallels to Windows 7 on my current iMac so I've used Windows recently and can echo some of the complaints from the Mac people here.
In general, Macs have always been aesthetically pleasing to me (physically and in UI), and I very very rarely encounter problems. Programs rarely ever crash. I've never had a virus. I never run into problems when needing a program for something.
I just don't like Windows design, I downloaded Rainmeter and made a tricked out setup, but 30% of the programs ended up bugging out. I've had viruses. Multiple instances where I lost data because of programs crashing. Maybe I'm just an idiot, but switching to a PC would almost certainly decrease my overall productivity.
I wasn't doing it because of cost either. I was planning on spending $2,500 on a pretty powerful PC setup, but the 2-year old iMac I'm using now has no problem running all of the programs I use at once. I don't need a ridiculous amount of power.
Rather than make a full transition to PC I'm either going to replace the screen in my current iMac, or sell it and buy a new one.
So far I'm still set on the iMac. I do run Parallels to Windows 7 on my current iMac so I've used Windows recently and can echo some of the complaints from the Mac people here.
In general, Macs have always been aesthetically pleasing to me (physically and in UI), and I very very rarely encounter problems. Programs rarely ever crash. I've never had a virus. I never run into problems when needing a program for something.
I just don't like Windows design, I downloaded Rainmeter and made a tricked out setup, but 30% of the programs ended up bugging out. I've had viruses. Multiple instances where I lost data because of programs crashing. Maybe I'm just an idiot, but switching to a PC would almost certainly decrease my overall productivity.
I wasn't doing it because of cost either. I was planning on spending $2,500 on a pretty powerful PC setup, but the 2-year old iMac I'm using now has no problem running all of the programs I use at once. I don't need a ridiculous amount of power.
Rather than make a full transition to PC I'm either going to replace the screen in my current iMac, or sell it and buy a new one.
hmm both of which are available on Windows, once again failing to prove how OSX is better for development.
Nevertheless I'll give them a try.
Yeah. I'm not on Mac for a specific tool but for the other reasons I stated.
I would use Sublime on any system.
