On 1/3/06, Frank Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kinda missed the sarcasm there. With the advent of the 2 popular web > frameworks TG and the other one, I think you know that one. It seems > like all the OS X geeks are jumping out of the wood work. Kinda got > blind sided and I'm scratching my head asking myself where the hell > did all these OS X people come from. Is it genuine love for the OS or > because lemmings like to follow the crowd. Anyway it was just an > observation that has absolutely no intrinsic value. It's just funny > that's all.
For me, I've been a unix geek for a decade (but I've often used Windows on my desktop, Solaris in one job, Linux in another). In 2003, I got my first PowerBook and you'd have a hard time convincing me to switch to something else. It gives me the nice bits of a unixy development environment (+ TextMate which I've been using for several months and love), and a great GUI and easy peripheral support that just works. Plus, there are just generally a lot of really cool programs for the Mac (OmniOutliner, OmniGraffle, Quicksilver, Snapz Pro X, etc.) I spend basically zero time working on my system and get to spend all of my time *doing useful things*. And, yeah, I do run Firefox. Safari is very fast and light, but Firefox is hard to beat for web development because of the extensions that are available. And I'm hooked on type ahead find (which Saft doesn't handle quite as nicely in Safari). Kevin
