PC or Mac for web development?

Beansprout · 20 Jul 2009 at 14:33

A Mac with Coda

Tripnologist · 20 Jul 2009 at 14:49

denyerec said:
you have to run a handful of VM's to successfully test various versions of IE anyway

Not anymore. We have IETester for PC which has IE 5.5 - 8

reflux · 20 Jul 2009 at 15:07

Spunkey said:
Exactly. No one needs a mac

^^this

I work in design and use a PC running W7 absolutely fine. Hell, my boss runs SuSE...it's all sparkly here.

Russinating · 20 Jul 2009 at 15:22

PC - it costs half as much for something twice as powerful.

The only reasons Macs are (or were) used predominantly for design is screen/print colour collaboration - the one advantage of an evil hardware conglomerate. And of course design companies were also likely to do web design... on the Macs they already had.

fez · 20 Jul 2009 at 19:57

Yeah, they do look swish in your office but no difference functionality wise. Get what you want. I got an iMac for dev work because its a nice simple all in one solution with a great screen and I got it cheap but honestly I dont think I could justify paying full price for something like an iMac on the grounds of developing software on it.

BFCTom · 20 Jul 2009 at 20:59

Beansprout said:
A Mac with Coda

<3 Coda

But to answer the OP, it's completely down to personal preference. I've always used PC's up until the last year and a half where I've been using primarily an iMac for my design work. I just prefer the operating system on a Mac and for testing you can always install a windows partition and there are other alternatives to use in OSX itself.