I made the switch in February and will never look back. Don't listen to Matt ;-)
Brendan On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Matt Chotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So a lot of us on the Flex team now have Macs. One reason is because we > have a lot of designers who use Macs anyway. Another is because we obviously > build software for Macs, and in running Macs we can actually do tests on > both Mac and Windows (via virtual machine). I was entirely a PC guy before I > got my Mac about 15 months ago. I don't mind the Mac, but I wouldn't say > it's more stable than my PC was, and the inconsistency in how keyboard > shortcuts work and whatnot drives me up wall. My IDE is no longer > Eclipse/Flex Builder but my email client and Word and PowerPoint, and I > gotta say I like the Windows versions better than the Mac. > > I think if you are a happy Windows user and don't have a compelling reason > to use a Mac you don't need to switch just because it appears others are > using it. Not saying the Mac is bad, just saying it hasn't made me a > convert. > > Matt > > > On 10/23/08 12:06 PM, "Clint Tredway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<grumpee%40gmail.com>> > wrote: > > I recently switched to a MAC and love it. > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<ultraky%40gmail.com>> > wrote: > > I use a mac, but I've been using Apple products since 1979.... > > OSX is Unix based, and a lot of devs like the Unix- ish features. My > experience with designing and developing on a mac is that it's more straight > forward to use. If you love to inker with your OS and hardware, go > Microsoft, for a more straight forward enviroment go OSX. > > Apple has an very large market share of US laptops - and gaining fast. > > Alan > On Oct 23, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Matthew Shirey wrote: > > Do most Flex developers work on Mac? > > > -- Brendan Meutzner http://www.meutzner.com/blog/
