I've been in the business a long time, the real developers are almost always on Windows. There are a few Java guys I know that use Mac's, but usually Mac's are used by the art grunts.
And the people running Mac's always seem to complain about them too, it's kind of funny. There is this wonder little world of bliss that Apple fanboys on these threads like to pretend exists, but in the real world, in real offices and agencies - the Mac's are generally the most problematic machines, they slow down quite a bit with a few applications running, the OS really doesn't crash except for the kernel panic from time to time, but applications certainly crash.
And there are CONSTANT issues with software just not running on them, where I work, the 1 guy on a Mac has a Windows machine sitting next to it that gets used often.
However, you never, ever, see the Windows guys needing to use the Macs.
In the real world, Mac's just aren't that good. They are great consumer devices for people that simply surf the web, make movies and manage pictures, word processing, but they are also very pricey for this... if you can afford it great... I got my mom an iMac, and although it's been problematic with drivers and other stupid issues (time machine generated a read/write error on the disk, had to remount it for some odd reason), she is generally happy with it.
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