Keep using your x86 hardware until it gets old and crusty. Run Linux, *BSD, Windows or whatever feel comfortable. At that point, I do suggest taking a look at OS X.
I used Linux on a very nice old PII350 until it finally became obsolete. (Yea, I keep my hardware for a while...) Then I bought a nice little iBook, which was priced comprably to x86 laptops.
I still use Linux on most of my servers (also have a Win32 box around of customers when then need it). But Mac OS X is (at least for me) a much nicer development workstation. I get all my familiar *NIX tools, plus a very refined interface, a rich command line interface, simple hardware support and a selection of commercial apps that aren't available for Linux.
The only downside I can see is game availability, but my iBook still does better in this regard then my old PII did...:)//glw
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Keep using your x86 hardware until it gets old and crusty. Run Linux, *BSD, Windows or whatever feel comfortable. At that point, I do suggest taking a look at OS X.
:) //glw
I used Linux on a very nice old PII350 until it finally became obsolete. (Yea, I keep my hardware for a while...) Then I bought a nice little iBook, which was priced comprably to x86 laptops.
I still use Linux on most of my servers (also have a Win32 box around of customers when then need it). But Mac OS X is (at least for me) a much nicer development workstation. I get all my familiar *NIX tools, plus a very refined interface, a rich command line interface, simple hardware support and a selection of commercial apps that aren't available for Linux.
The only downside I can see is game availability, but my iBook still does better in this regard then my old PII did...