Why every developer needs a MacBook Pro?

Dude, as you know I'm right there with ya.  I've pretty much already decided that my next home "PC" is going to be a Mac.  

But here's the bigger question.  How can we convince our companies to see the benefits of them and actually consider providing us the choice of a MacBook vs. say a Dell laptop (like Thoughtworks is getting ready to do)?

I dunno.  That apple logo key creeps me the F out.  Plus, I don't yet have enough cash to spend way too much on overpriced hardware.  Maybe someday...

I thought about buying one a few months ago, but didn't really want to drop 3 G's on a laptop that would cost half that from Dell, or a quarter of that if I built my own PC which I usually do.  People talk about the Windows tax, what's the Mac OS tax?  I'm guessing around $1500 or so.

> "Be careful though, the Linux zealot in the room may here what you are doing and say "I can reimage your machine with {insert linux distro here} and run Windows as a VM.  You don't have to spend a dime and best of all we can reuse your existing laptop.  Who needs Apple.... Linux will rule the world!!!"  Yeah that guy.   (not that there is anything wrong with that..  :-)  "

LOL!  Hilarious!

@Jason,

That's gotta make its way into your new tag line somehow...  :P

I have been bugging my boss relentlessly to get me one. The word through the grapevine is that he ordered a couple of macbook pros on the down low. I am parying that one of them is for me =)

please!!!

Jimmy Bogard pretty much has it OTM. I had a Mac a while back - it lasted about six months before I sold it. Buy a Dell for a similar price and you'll be a lot less frustrated in the medium to long term.

From the Linux Zealot in the room:

Apple = $

Linux = FREE

Need I say more.

Oh.....and Linux will rule the world.  Just wait. :)

@Joe:

It wasn't as powerful as the two year old PC it was going to replce, yet it was pretty expensive. That frustrated me. The features I'd thought were cool before switching (Exposé, Dashboard, Spotlight), well, they were novelties and nothing more. Additionally, other OSX features like using DMGs for installation (people complain about MSIs but DMGs are plain daft), the Finder and general UI inconsistancies (such as when you pref settings will be applied) were all too much for me.

I switched back to Windows with a sigh of relief. However, this was before Apple's move to Intel, and so before Bootcamp and Parallels became available. That's not really anything to do with the core Mac experience though, and when you factor in the continuing reports of unreliable Mac laptop hardware, it will be a very long time before I buy another Mac.

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@cramsay , i'm so sorry to hear your bad xperience.

i'm writing this from my macbook pro and been a .NET developer i must say this is the best laptop i've ever own.

Must of the time i use OS X for the day to day task, email, web browsing, listen to music and even draw my uml diagrams and when i'm working i fire up Parallels and i get my development environment right in my Mac desktop.

I was going to get a dell xps instead of the mac, but i plan to develop iphone apps too so i did my homework and looked out for the benefits of using a macbook pro and weighted if the investment was worth it, and oh boy i'm really happy with my final choice.

just my 2 cents.