Pro-Apple?

Hi Evan!

I'm not sure why all the Treehouse teachers program on Macs so I can't comment about that but personally I find OS X to be the best platform to develop on hands down. I have programmed on Windows, Linux and OS X and I just find the experience to be far nicer on Mac.

As far as software goes you can get Xcode for free on OS X which allows you to develop OS X and iOS applications. This software isn't available for Windows or Linux which may also be a reason people love Mac for developing.

-Luke

Hi, i think because this machines are mostly to work and its just different how to use them.
Plus on apple you can do everything , near everything . The most important (i think) things , like some graphics software etc.. works on it . To be able to code for Apple, for iOS , you need to have and iMac. On windows you can't program for apple. And on iMac , you can program for windows i think like in eclipse, java etc..

The way this are build , the system , it may be also better than windows

Like if you want to play games, i think iMac would be bad. So its like windows is good for games and iMac not and iMac is better for work and windows not . Maybe . Thats why i think . I used windows 8, don't like iti . Windows 7 was better. iMac is completely different .

In a lot of cases it's just a preference. It's worth noting that the Ruby community seems to slant towards OS X. And Ruby does come pre-installed on OS X, except you'll almost always not use the version of Ruby that comes pre-installed.

If I had to guess I'd take a look at the early Treehouse teachers.

Here is my wild speculation:

• Nick Pettit: Design background, many designers are Mac fans
• Jason Seifer: Ruby teacher, Ruby comes pre-installed on OS X
• Amit Bijlani: iOS teacher, iOS (e.g. iPhone Apps) only available on OS X
• Jim Hoskins: My guess is he's a Linux / OS X fan and like OS X because it's UNIX