Few months back I bought a MacMini just to play around with. Initial periods are somewhat irritating – remembering to press command instead of control etc. But I stuck with it. Recently, I realized that I am spending more time on the Mac than either Linux or Windows. Eclipse for Mac is decent (though it crashes once in a while) and I am using it for Marathon development. In the end, I decided to go for a iMac. My iMac just got delivered and it is great. With parallels I am able to run both Linux/Windows on this and the VM is pretty fast.

Why Mac?

1. It is smooth and works out of box. And of-course it looks great.
2. With parallels, I am able to test out Marathon on Linux/Windows and Mac from the same box. No other box can give me the ability to test it under Mac.
3. Quicksilver – I took sometime getting used to it, but it is a great time saver. Since eclipse also uses Ctrl-space as a short cut, I use Ctrl-Option-Space to bring up QS.
4. Under the hood, OSX is BSD. So most of the Unix goodies are available.

For those of my friends who say (with some justification) Macs are costly, I say just try it. Eye candy makes a lot of difference (though I find myself playing around once in a while instead of working .