Bearfruit

What about the OS? Obvious response, but to the point.

I attended a No Fluff Just Stuff earlier this year, a conference which invites book writers and lead developers from various companies to come together and hold talks about Java and software trends. At a round table discussion involving a bunch of the speakers in a single room, one could easily see that each of the speakers had a Mac. When asked “Why Mac?”, one of the speakers replied “my time is worth money, and my Mac helps me save time”. He then went on to talk about how little maintenance and other bs Mac owners have to deal with, and how the development environment setup on a Mac makes it dirt easy for a developer to get up and running.

I run Ubuntu at home, and feel it’s trending towards the Mac ease of use and ease of development (especially for Java), but it’s not quite there. Certainly better than Windows tho.

Suffice to say, the premium on buying a Mac has been worth the investment.