Comments on: Why should you get a Mac? Dunno.

By: Svelon

Svelon — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:07:33 +0000

And what? You want to end the flame “Mac vs PC” with just one post? You think that now I will not continue to bug you about it? You think that now everything is clear and no further discussion issues are left?

HA!

By: Sugar

Sugar — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:14:51 +0000

@barak

I really don’t know what is the context here. You really believe that people using Visual Studio for web work are the majority?

And to what app development you refer to? Because I have the feeling you only refer to the Windows sort.

Your point me struck me as completely irrelevant and I acted accordingy. Please don’t play the “Oh the irony, I’m insulted” game here.

By: stelabouras

stelabouras — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:50:35 +0000

@barak

I really don’t think that Visual Studio can be considered “the” best IDE for *web* development.

There are a lot of IDES out there specifically for this kind of job (cross platform [Aptana, Dreamweaver, Netbeans], Mac only [Coda] etc).

Personally, I prefer Visual Studio only for [windows] application development.

By: barak

barak — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:17:20 +0000

Pardon me but the irony is also out of context.

By: Sugar

Sugar — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:37:43 +0000

@barak

One can be productive without coding in Visual Studio you know.

Not all of us are badass programmers.

Really, didn’t you hear?

P.S. Plus you can get Visual Studio working through some virtualization app anyway. Point dismissed.

By: barak

barak — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:07:37 +0000

As long as Visual Studio is considered by far the best IDE for application/web development the whole “productivity” issue is out of context.

By: dimitris @ insideabox

dimitris @ insideabox — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:36:59 +0000

@Sugar:Great Post!

@pkontopoulos: I’am a project manager (mac On), and i don’t have application problems either.

I have also Keynote for presentations, Daylite+Billings for monitoring my business, Numbers for cool spreadsheets and Merlin for project management… also some other great little-tiny apps that make me productive.

think different!

Sugar thanks for the space.

By: pkontopoulos

pkontopoulos — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:54:20 +0000

Definitely the fact that most of Mac people work over and for the web is critical.
And I believe that much of recent Mac popularity increase is due to that, more and more applications in the cloud.
Things get really different when you have to work with business applications or develop them.

By: Sugar

Sugar — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:29:15 +0000

@pkontopoulos

I never had any problems fishing for useful apps on the Mac (on the contrary for PC).

Maybe it’s the fact that I’m a web worker and things are easier on this side.

By: jimeh

jimeh — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:19:07 +0000

I totally agree. In the end it comes down to personal preference. And personally i find myself a lot more productive on a Mac, not thanks to the lack of viruses, or expose, and others, but because of _all_ of it. Pretty much _all_ features of the OS work together so smoothly, and most add a little extra which other OS’s can’t do.

All of these things working together, improving my ability to multi-task, keep all my tasks organized, and even find boring and annoying things fun sometimes, is what makes a Mac my computer of choice above all others.