they always have. forever. where have you been?

they can drive huge external monitors, seamlessly from the OS, with no special drivers. always have.

apparently the real stats of build quality and customer satisfaction don't matter...?

we all know who wins when the factual data is brought to the discussion.

anecdotes are cute, but they don't serve the overall discussion; no matter how relevant they are to you personally.

the point is: apple hardware has the overwhelming customer satisfaction, customer service and build quality data that matters when these topics are brought up. statistically significant data trumps online pissing, always.

unless you are developing exclusively windows apps/content (and maybe even then), apple's make the most sense. the only serious developers who write them off are those that don't have a grand to spend on a computer. and then how serious can you really claim to be if you can't afford that?

serious developers switch TO apple/OS X, but not back. except as a publicity stunt. or to be a fucking curmudgeon.

No. They don't vanish because of people wanting things that only take a little bit of wood. They vanish from things that take a ridiculous amount of wood... like the framing of your domicile and the furniture in it, and the tens of millions like it (maybe you live in an igloo, but you get the point). Spending energy trying to make these guys feel bad about their little business endeavor seems like a waste of your ecology-minded efforts.

That said, these cases still look like bad caskets. So maybe that will save a few trees after all.