Why do devs use Mac?

I personally know a development company that uses Macs almost exclusively but installs Windows on them. From what I understand they felt the hardware was some of the best at the time for running Windows from a durability and battery life stance and they also look nice as a bonus.

That stance is quickly changing now as they have various other vendors available to choose from for new machines and its only going to get worse for Apple because the new MacBook Pro with the touch bar and lack of physical escape and function keys mean that the machines are less than optimal for running Windows among other issues like lack of memory capacity.

Apple only has themselves to blame really. Perhaps they should've asked themselves what "Pro" means before slapping that moniker onto a product.

Something mac os looks pretty something, something lol

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Mac is sort of a compromize between alienating yourself totally from the world using linux, and being a douche who has bill gates sitting in his living room everytime he watches porn on his computer.
Most back end development is done using linux, and on linux platform etc etc.
where as most front end development, and testing is done towards window$ so using mac, places you right sortta smack in the middle where you "kind of" have the best of both worlds.
Downside to it, is that using a mac makes you a total douce because it it shows is you have to much money, and little intelligence due it being generations behind as you yourself stated, both hard, and software wise.
But using a Mac you have "some" linux tools at hand, where as using windows you basically go commercial having to shell out, risk viruses, bloatware and what not for every little bit of software you use.

Implying anyone uses a Mac for development. They might use it to compile and port code, but they don't use it for development.

Do not make fun of my Laptop !

2012 Dell Inspiron 15R i5-3337U @ 2.7Ghz 6Gb ram Fedora 24 ( systemd-nspawn Fedora 26 )

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That is a beast compared to my 2010 Dell Inspiron i3-370M @ 2.4GHz 4GB of RAM Fedora 25, that thing still got me through University though but damn was it slow.

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Wow ! glad you made it ! This laptop is running very well and I must say I have not considered a purchase for another machine due to it's reliability. We have a deal with Dell where we can purchase a Laptop at a discounted price and I looked at some, but my Inspiron 15R is still doing well. More Ram and an SSD will do wonders.

Programming is fairly comfortable as well. Idle3, command line, Sublime, Atom whatever I use just goes.

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very similar to my linux laptop. Haven't used it in weeks though; Been using freebsd on my thinkpad and it's so much nicer.

Good yours still works, mine on the other hand hasn't faired so well. it overheats and shutsdown quickly after bootup and the HDD is almost dead. Luckily my brother just gave me his old laptop the other week which has a Sandybridge i7, I just throw an Intel 802.11/ac card and a cheap 60GB SSD and it works like a dream, will probably last me a least a couple of years.

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They're one of the few companies that support Mac. Apple has lost its way and by being distracted w/ selling iDevices and shifting its focus on a diff target market (mobile), they consequently neglected the Pro-sumer audience with minimal attn who made Apple what it was during the PC era, and now those same Pro-sumer users have jumped on the Windows train.

If they do a lot of mobile then it makes doing iOS stuff much easier. Using Macs they can write and compile for both Android and iOS. Using Windows or Linux they can't do that without having a Mac in house on the network, OR paying a 3rd party for a Mac "in the cloud".

stuff thats developed for android is essentially Java, which can be developed on anything.

Yes, but that was not my point. My point is on a Mac you can dev and compile for both, but on Windows/Linux you can't... Unless, again, you have a Mac on the network to compile for iOS.