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A comment on Ask HN: Do I need a Mac in order to be taken seriously as a web developer?.

Re:Ask HN: Do I need a Mac in order to be taken seriously as... by staunch on Friday March 02, 2012 @03:32PM (#3658237)
It depends what you want. If you're trying to get a job, then yeah, it might actually help to seem more like the cool kids. Get a Mac, use RoR/Node.js, insist on NoSQL, and wear a Afghan scarf too for good measure.

In practical terms it doesn't matter at all. The web is cross-platform and if anything I'd say Linux has the advantage as a development environment. It allows you to create a local environment identical to your server environment.

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Re:Ask HN: Do I need a Mac in order to be taken seriously as... by kls on Friday March 02, 2012 @04:04PM (#3658376)
I'd say Linux has the advantage as a development environment

It really depends on how far you lean towards design, if you do a bit of design you are going to find more support on the OSX side, if you do pretty much all code, then I would say you can forgo the Mac. I agree with the parent post though that Linux or one of the Unix variants (Including OSX) has broader development tools support that Windows.

The other thing is a quality PC laptop is going to be pretty close in cost. I view the Sager laptops as being on par with Apple as far as quality of components and they where not that much cheaper last time I looked at them.

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Re:Ask HN: Do I need a Mac in order to be taken seriously as... by mirsadm on Friday March 02, 2012 @07:39PM (#3658938)
That's hilarious. We just bought the cheapest stuff with the best hardware we could find. At the end of the day it gets the job done and we saved a bunch of money that we can use to keep going longer.
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