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Mixtilplix_sl said:
This right here. Hackintosh is nice and fine to play around with but for real world use I would advise against it. The macbook air just got a refresh, so you can find last years model which is practically identical to the new one except for a slight non perceptible cpu boost.
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Air devices have ULV processors, not really enough if you plan on doing serious development with them.
 
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Celestein_sl said:
It really depends on how/what you develop. "Worth it" is a matter of perspective, as a paid developer the answer is typically "hell yes", because if you spend 10h a year fucking with linux or windows specific issues you've already negated the cost savings of either. OSX fills that void of just being a stable machine that has good terminal support, there's nothing "special" about it outside that, but that's enough that you see them very frequently among devs.
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What I also like about OSX, which this will be odd to say, is there is less software for it. Just the other day I needed an XML editor with full XPath 1.0 and 2.0 support. On Windows there are a thousand of these. All with varying degrees of quality and functionality. On OSX there were like four. And my company had readily available keys for one of them.
 
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Tenks

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I use a MBP. The form factor of the Air is very nice but 90% of the time (probably higher) the computer is docked with my multi monitor hookup anyways.
 
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ahh took me a minute to figure out what MBA was, I feel a little dumb now. MBA would certainly be cheaper than a full fledged iMac. I am considering that route since a laptop would be nice for school anyway.
 
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If you like OSX but want to build something, and are a Linux user at heart try Elementary OS it is by far and away the cleanest GUI I've ever encountered.
 
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