Interesting.

I find some things easier to get things done on OS X than I do on Linux, but maybe its just the distro i use (fc13 atm). I find that i am supporting other devs using an Ubuntu distro and I understand its just my unfamiliarity with the location of conf and the differing mindset of the package maintainers but I find I detest configuring and using an Ubuntu box over an FC box.

Funnily enough the devs using os x never seem to need help.

My point is that all OS'es and various distro's have their strengths and weaknesses, for a user, no mater their technical aptitude, its all about familiarity of the tools they are using and their ability and willingness to adapt to the new situation, software or operating environment.

I have found stuff that just works under windows that has been a *real* bitch to get going on my fc box.

Maybe you are prepared to put up with the extra weight and size as a trade off for the extra grunt, but not everyone would be. I confess to have never used a Thinkpad X201, have you ever used an MBA?

Well I would use a soldering iron, but fortunately this is not necessary as the both the Toshiba Blade X-gale SSD and the Photofast SSD (which incidently uses a Sandforce SF-1200 controller) are user replaceable by anyone with the correct screwdriver.

Amen to that. In today's age with the advent of SSD I would have thought it perfectly normal to want to easily move my home dir to a different drive, (something easily achieved in any linux flavour, os x or even xp) but apparently Microsoft don't consider this necessary in Windows 7. Of course if I want to reinstall windows, it is possible I believe.

I believe, tho I could be wrong, that he was referring to mac version of Internet Explorer, which was nothing like the windows version of the day. In fact the only thing they had in common seemed to be the name.

These are just isolated statistics from one institution and in no means representative of a whole country or the whole world for that matter, but interesting none the less. As a long time mac user (25 years ago I bought my first mac and I still use mac today) a long time windows user (2001 I bought my first windows machine and I still use windows everyday) and long time linux user (circa 1997 I built my first linux server (RH5.something) and I still use both FC13 and Ubuntu 10 ). As a java web app developer my main dev machine in the work place runs FC13. It replaces an Win XP box that i have dev'ed with for the last 3 years. At home for private projects my machine is a Mac Pro. I only mention these facts to add some cred to my next statement. I hate all of the OSes for differing reasons. They all suck. They all have their individual issues that get in my way as I try and work in my chosen profession. As a long time /. reader, I am continually amazed at the amount of FUD spread (by particularly /. posters about, who in my view should know better) about the various OS'es. Don't get me wrong, I love the jibing and the fanboi accusations but, OMG please at least check your facts before hitting your keyboards. If one where to survey my immediate family, I mean my brothers, my sister my nieces my nephews, my own children even, (over 10 people) the only one in my family that uses a windows PC in exclusion to any other OS, is my 80 year old father. The rest all use macs as either their main computer or only computer. This does not mean that this is typical of a world wide trend, it is just a trend within my family.

Back in my day light used to travel at 3x10^8 m/s and through copper at about 95% of that. I thought it was just me slowing down as I got older.