“People who can afford Apple products have a special devotion to the Mac and OS X” is another fun claim: people buy Apple products for an easy, all-in-one hardware and software (iLife, iWork and the media browser) system which is easy to use, and which looks good.Īlso I take issue with Ubuntu being good for everything.

One prime example is compilation, which makes it a lot less friendly for developers (the Intel iMacs out-perform the dual-core G5s in this area). Likewise the G5, with it’s weak integer performance, is quite underpowered for certain tasks in comparison to Intel. You may need to use the GTK# libraries to do this, but Microsoft’s development tools don’t prohibit using third-party libraries, in fact they make it quite easy.Īs for users paying more for “Apple’s performance”, the Powerbooks and iBooks were, until recently, drastically underpowered compared to their Intel-based counterparts. Net runtimes that can be executed by Mono. Secondly, Visual C# does, arguably, allow for interoperability across desktops such as Windows and Linux seeing as it can create.

Of course, this is true of XCode on the Mac, and KDevelop on Linux, but is not mentioned as a demerit for either. “Microsoft’s development tools work strictly on Windows and do not allow for interoperability amongst desktops such as the Mac, Linux or systems running non-Intel based processors.” Not to mention that he manages to use Ubuntu “for 12 or more hours a day” and still find time to investigate Windows and Mac OS X.

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