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Comment on Ask HN: Convince a programmer to switch over to Mac (from Linux)

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My uninformed impression, never having owned an Apple product:

They're expensive, they crease your wrists, and the risk of some physical defect is great enough to be infuriating when they're so known for design and so expensive.

(They also look like shit after they're a few years old, based on my team mates units, but maybe that's from expecting them to be shiny MOMA-worthy objects.)

For playing well with the other team mates: Mac users have always been on different versions of Office than the rest of teams' members that I've been with, different enough that it causes unnecessary friction while trying to figure it out.

As a non-Mac developer: them are some expensive terminal windows.

As a ..nix developer: the ports (?) system, and its brethren/competitors, always seem to have different/old versions of software. The saving grace being that it does have those expensive terminal windows.

tl;dr: Harumph!

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