What a rubbish operating system Vista is. This machine is constantly doing a run on the hard drive. I do not know why but the whole time I am using it response times are slow as the hard drive is being slammed. I have tried to remove the causes, but to no avail. This is why we never use it and choose the Macbook over it every-time. This desktop was for my business and due to having to do some windows development it was the only reason I bought this waste of money. I am sure many people love their Windows machines but I don't have the patience anymore to hunt down all the crap or to tune it so that it isn't crap. There is a reason my personal computer is a Macbook and that I develop on a Mac Pro at work. They are best of breed at the moment. (reply)
Not politics but organisational technology and its ramifications get discussed heavily on this site. James Gosling wrote:

As several people have noticed at my talks over the past few months, I no longer carry a Mac laptop. As much as I love the Mac's eye candy, it really hasn't been keeping up as a developer's machine - their attention has clearly been elsewhere.

I agree. I have an iBook G4 which is several years old now and has done good service. It has travelled across three continents with me. Its frame is bent, it has no paint on many of the keys and has cracks in the plastic. It is a useful machine - except for development. I am stuck in Java 1.4 and I had all sorts of issues getting Python 2.5 on it. This means I cannot run Eclipse 3.2 either. Windows and Linux are far more reliable as development machines and environments because tools will be built for them no matter how old the operating system. Apple obsoletes what it supports very quickly in computing technology terms. (more)
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