Her current Mac (a 13" i7 MBP) survived a car crash in early March (the machined body is very slightly warped and it'll probably have to make a visit to an Apple dealer for that). Compare it against a similarly well built machine and things look even worse for the PC. My wife uses a Mac and just the time I didn't spend fixing, cleaning and disinfecting a Windows install more than paid for the price difference between her MBP and a cheap Dell. If the Apple hardware lasts longer, requires less maintenance and makes the developers more productive, it may end up very well paying for itself. > one must literally buy Apple hardware to test in an Apple environment.
Hopefully over time, especially as the landscape continues to change, the antifanboys will realise this and update their views. The landscape has changed in the last five years. I prefer Chrome myself, but supporting IE9 really isn't that hard, and suggesting otherwise is FUD. I also notice this on various high profile podcasts that from time to time downplay anything from Microsoft as having any value these days, despite not really having had recent first hand experience of what's available. I honestly think a lot of hacker types really do live in a bubble where they think it's still 2000, Microsoft is still the same evil company they were, Apple still can do no wrong, most people now use Macs "if they know what's good for them", RoR, node.js and Python are really the only valid technologies for back end development and so forth.Ĭertainly plenty of folks out there using the aforementioned technologies are more worldly than my previous statement would suggest, but there are still an irritating number of developers living in the past who haven't really got a realistic view of the technology landscape as it exists today, in 2012.
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