Program on a Mac or PC?

[ED-209]

So traditionally designers always use Macs and programmers use PCs, in modern days a lot of programmers tend to use Macs aswell. I'm looking at getting a completely new machine, for the first time ever I'm actually considering getting a Mac (which is something I never thought i'd say) does anyone here use a Mac for programming? If so what are your thoughts on it?? I know it's better for things like Vagrant boxes and the like and they're certainly prettier - but they come with a much heftier price tag.

Thoughts?

 

[Marc]

First question is what envrionment are you programing for and the second is what programming tools are you planning on using?

Sure there might be more programmers working on Macs but I'd give good odds they're developing primarily for OS X and iOS ecosystems and then web platforms which are generally device agnostic.

 

[ED-209]

PHP programming, Magento and Laravel - but on a local level.

 

[Marc]

PHP programming, Magento and Laravel - but on a local level.

not familiar with either product via google it looks like both will run on OS X without any problems so it comes down to whether a Mac will have any advantages for you as a development platform.

They have style and simple management and don't take up space because of the all-in-one design (but that AIO design means many dollars if goes wrong (though the same could be said for any AIO) and that's probably their advantage as a development platform.

 

[XCV330]

So traditionally designers always use Macs and programmers use PCs, in modern days a lot of programmers tend to use Macs aswell. I'm looking at getting a completely new machine, for the first time ever I'm actually considering getting a Mac (which is something I never thought i'd say) does anyone here use a Mac for programming? If so what are your thoughts on it?? I know it's better for things like Vagrant boxes and the like and they're certainly prettier - but they come with a much heftier price tag.

Thoughts?

You can run windows virtualized on a Mac. And with the money you save on needing that second windows computer you can throw together some hardware for a cheap linux box where you will spend most of your time coding, anyway.

 

[ED-209]

You can run windows virtualized on a Mac. And with the money you save on needing that second windows computer you can throw together some hardware for a cheap linux box where you will spend most of your time coding, anyway.

I think Vagrant boxes phppuppet run better on a MAC (so no Linux box needed), and you have unix Command line out the box.