In my day job i work on a PC with Windows XP and it’s frustrating, not because it is Windows. It is the fact that there is no way to make your self comfortable on a Windows machine, because there is no good software for Windows to get a useful workspace.

The mac gives you useful stuff right after you installed it, because Mac OS X is a UNIX you get a whole bunch of useful command-line applications. By installing MacPorts you are able to get nearly every application or library related to web-development.

To do the development of every kind i use TextMate, it is one of the best editors on this earth, it is simple, easy to extend and personalize. There is no feature you don’t need. There is a nice community around this editor, which contributes a lot to make this editor better and better.

To test your website or your web-application on browsers like Internet Explorer 6 or 7 there are to very good virtualization programs, VMWare Fusion and Parallels. Both are the best and both offer you the Unity Mode (or Parallels “Coherence Mode”), which allows you to display Windows-Windows integrated into you workspace. The windows are also display in Exposé and the window-switcher. For server-side develppment you can simulate the whole deployment process and test your application with the same configuration you have on you server. I have Debian on my server, and i also have virtual machine with the same configuration localy.

Beyond development there a lot of cool utilities, one of my favorites is Quicksilver it not only offers a quick way to launch applications, it also lets you quickly access your addressbook entries or skip the current track in itunes.

I don’t hate Windows, it’s just that i love mac.