So sad that Mac not in countries like Argentina, only have expensive
resellers, we must pay price of 150% or more compared with the U.S..
_______________________
Agustin Viñao
www.agustinvinao.com.ar
agustinvinao (Skype)
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Rob Biedenharn
<r...@agileconsultingllc.com>wrote:
> And! you'd probably find that a good portion of the non-Mac laptops at
> those conferences were running an o/s other than Windows.
>
> It's similar to the reason that Graphic Designers are more likely to
> have Macs. The platform has a better environment, better tools for the
> actual work that matters.
>
> -Rob
>
> Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com
> r...@agileconsultingllc.com
>
> On Dec 4, 2009, at 2:49 PM, eric7...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > the short answer is because they're smart :-).
> >
> > You have to remember that OS X is Unix with the best GUI. The Unix
> > platform is far more mature than the Window core therefore more
> > stable. Also, Unix was originate by programmers for programmers
> >
> > Hope that help. Also, if you'd ever spend some quality time use OS X
> > you'd never go back to Windows & I used Windows since 3.0 until
> > about 6 months ago. I'll never run another Windows PC
> >
> >
> > ------Original Message------
> > From: Jim Knowlton
> > To: Ruby on Rails: Talk
> > ReplyTo: rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com
> > Subject: [Rails] Why do so many Ruby/Rails developers use Macs?
> > Sent: Dec 4, 2009 11:33 AM
> >
> > I am a QA engineer who works in Ruby quite a bit, and I've never been
> > able to figure out...why is there a disproportionately large
> > contingent of Mac users among Ruby developers? Macs are probably 10
> > percent of the computer market, but every time I go to a Ruby
> > conference, probably 80 percent of the laptops there are Macs.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group.
> To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com.
> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
> rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rubyonrails-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>
> .
> For more options, visit this group at
> http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
>
>
>
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby
on Rails: Talk" group.
To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
