Mac vs. Windows: Best laptop for software developers

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2 points·gdltec··4 comments

These days platform choice is irrelevant. All modern platforms have tools available for doing basically anything a software developer will ever do, and doing it well.

Unless what you're doing requires some specific feature of some specific platform (i.e. you're either developing the platform itself, or you're doing it wrong), go with what you know.

And if you aren't proficient in using any of these platforms and are looking for a recommendation on where to start on your software development career, you should probably reconsider.

I think this is highly dependent on what space a person is developing in. I can say from experience that embedded development is far easier on a windows platform. Many of the tools are just not available on OSX. I do embedded as a hobby and I try to use OSX as much as possible but the reality is that it is significantly more hassle to do it on OSX than on windows. If I where doing embedded development professionally I would most certainly use windows.

This is not a question, it is basically a post about my preference of using a MacBook vs. a Windows-based laptop for software development. I agree with you about choosing a platform being irrelevant these days... I like MacBooks but also love Windows 7 and so I use MacBooks because it is easier to run both OSX AND Windows in a MacBook than a Windows-based laptop ;)

quite happy with a Vaio X. however Windows really had to go - yes you can get a GNUserspace going with rxvt/ssh/git/bash from minGW/MSYS, but eventually youre throw into needing Cygwin for something, and then you need a decent/stocked package-manager for dependencies, and on

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