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The more I look around, the more it seems that nobody who does what I do suggests doing what I'm suggesting. I imagine there's good reason for that. I'm hearing from creative types who use Mac software for graphics or video, I'm hearing from people who really just don't like Microsoft, but I'm not hearing from software developers or sysadmin folk who find any advantages at all on the Apple platform.


Well, if your doing non MS (ASP, .net) web development, I'd say it's a very attractive platform. You get all the benefits of a good desktop OS, and the power of Unix in one nice package. Doing PHP work on my Mac was way easier then Windows, since all I had to do is check one box to turn on Apache, then just edit files in ~/Sites/ . No need to FTP/SCP the files elsewhere, I just hit save in my editor and refresh in my browser.

Macs have been more then glorified Photoshop boxes for a while now. It's just taking a bit for people to realize it. Hell, some companies are even embracing the server side of OS X, by slapping in XServes to replace both Windows and Unix services, from distributed authentication to e-mail and collaboration. Before I left the HP storage team, I knew of several small companies and even a large one running XServes and OS X.