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Russell Beattie:

By the way, I’m writing this on my new 15″ PowerBook G4 I got for work. I’ve finally done the complete switch to the Mac and am very happy! (Jeez, how long did that take me?) This particular laptop is amazing - I mean, it’s so well made it’s incredible. And it’s great for development - it comes with Apache, Perl, Python, PHP and more already pre-installed, and as you know Mac OSX is Unix, so it’s just a joy to work on.
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I have my Mac mini at home and my PowerBook at work and I don’t have to think about Windows any more at all (well, for the most part). Elle thinks that PowerBook owners are poseurs (Mike just got one too) but I disagree - I haven’t felt this productive in years. I definitely need to publish a list of my essential Mac apps sometime soon.

(via Roland Tanglao)

Update::

Paul Graham’s Return of the Mac

All the best hackers I know are gradually switching to Macs. My friend Robert said his whole research group at MIT recently bought themselves Powerbooks. These guys are not the graphic designers and grandmas who were buying Macs at Apple’s low point in the mid 1990s. They’re about as hardcore OS hackers as you can get.

The reason, of course, is OS X. Powerbooks are beautifully designed and run FreeBSD. What more do you need to know?

(via Blogmarks)

Update 30 March 05:

And then there’s Tim Bray of Sun considering doing the Unswitch; citing (mainly) Apple’s ‘cult of hermetic secrecy’, issues with Safari and his laptop speed and display (?).

Well, at least he has the uprightness to list a few great things he’d most certainly miss by switching to either ‘JDS/Solaris or some other GNU/Linux‘. Even more telling, though, he goes on to categorically dismiss Windows as an alternative.

(via Jason Kottke)