Actually, I know a lot of people who have bought PowerBooks for this very purpose. They're about as nice a Java development environment as you can get.
I figure since the majority of the market still uses PCs, most programmers would use that environment... I personally use just Windows and Linux but I'm certainly looking for a laptop and a Powerbook 15" is one of the options I'm aiming for
The majority of the desktop market uses PCs, sure, but they're not as dominant on the server side. For example, at work I code for a J2EE environment, running on Solaris 8, and Oracle 9i. My PowerBook is a better network citizen out of the box for communicating with the servers, and I can run Oracle and OAS locally on it with no problems.
Concur. And I'll add that for engineering programming they are quite useful. Also, they are now some of the premier machines for UNIX developers...
No, just trying to point out your comment was really pointless. The point of my statement was... creative, intellectual, and influential people that could use anything also use PC's. Yes, believe it or not, CEOs, athletes, scientists, doctors, etc. use PC's when they could use ANYTHING else. As a matter of fact people that use something use something when they could use ANYTHING else.
And MY experience, as someone who spoke everyday with people that got to make decisions on what type of computers their companies and schools bought in bulk and used was that there is a perception that they MUST use PC's and so they do. Because Windows holds such a high market share people have a perception that they are stuck and in some cases that is true. Trying to convince people that did have options to consider Apple was one of the hardest things we at Apple had to do. Yes, there are people that know that and choose PC's, just like there are people that can afford a Mercedes and instead buy a Chrysler.