On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Tod Hansmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Tell them no. There's no business case for spending 2-3x as much on the > hardware to run most likely the same software (or very, very similar). > None. Let me emphasize that: "no business case." If your devs prefer > working on a Mac, ok, more power to them and their own budgets. If they > can't be productive on another platform with the same tools, they are > not developers, and are not worth your time (or the gobs of money > they're costing).
Beyond the well-stated arguments of dev-perks already posted, I'd also add another thought to this. If a company told me something like this, I'd expect that they only offer regular off-the-shelf dell's to their developers. If you think that's ok, and it's ok to call that a 'workstation', well, you don't know hardware for squat. While there is an apple-tax, try speccing out a real workstation class machine on dell and comparing to a mac-pro. You won't see nearly the difference you expected. Same thing with servers. If you are running the cheapest possible hardware, well you're probably going to spend a lot more time trying to get them running right, and keep them that way. Now, I love to play with machines, and *can* be productive even on cheap hardware. But I didn't spend years driving a beater car because I liked it, it was because I wanted to save up for something I liked. Then I moved up. -- Jayce^ Preparing Deseret - UtahPreppers ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
