Macs are not expensive. Sure, you pay a premium for design if you buy the higher end stuff but a Mac Mini can be had quite inexpensively. Not to mention the countless used and refurbished machines on sale in many outlets. I personally own a Mac, and bought my first Mac (iBook G4) in college with my own cold hard cash at an excellent price. I can honestly say it was the best decision I made regarding OS switches. I still use Windows at work for compatibility reasons, but any and all freelance I do is on my Mac. I run Flex Builder 3, Photoshop, Terminal, Subethaedit and Firefox for development. I even have unix tools installed such as Nessus and tcpdump.
I don't mean to come off as an evangelist, as I strongly believe anything with a text editor and a FTP client is equal, but to count the Mac out on account of price is rather invalid. On a side note, when I went to the onAIR Bus Tour event all of the Adobe folks and most of the attendees had Macs. ;) -- William --- In [email protected], Tom Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 Jan 2008, George wrote: > > If you don't like Windows, go for a Mac, > > As the OP pointed out, Macs are very very expensive. > > -- > Tom Chiverton > Helping to appropriately enhance prospective market-growth > on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com > > **************************************************** > > This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. > > Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at Halliwells LLP, 3 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3EB. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. > > CONFIDENTIALITY > > This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 2500. > > For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. >
