Ive heard apple notebooks are great for the multimedia / designer environment . What bout for the coder / developer ?
Being on a win32 platform for most of the time , I use a lot of eclipse , wysisyg editors , code versioning tools , ftp utils , etc , and lotta cool tools that we take for granted .
So for the prospective coder thinkkking about the move to the apple rig , what should you look out for ,and how is the shift in general ? Any takers ?
Generally good from what I hear. You have the entire GNU toolchain there for the most part, apart from Mac exclusive stuff.
Everything u mentioned is there for the OSX but if u have probs with finding tools that u use in win32… u can always have XP installed on the Mac. Infact, XP does work very well on the MacBook pros!
I recently shifted to a Mac and very happy with the move. As KK pointed out, you have entire gnu toolset available plus you have XCode - apple’s own ide/toolset. You have a binary distribution for the Mac for most, if not you can download source and compile 
Its based on unix filesystem, so there shldnt be any prob for coders.
unix filesystem, so there shldnt be any prob for coders.
Unix filesystem???
If there is one thing about the Mac absolutely different from Unix, it is the filesystem.