PROGRAMMING: They are faster than PC's generally, certainly for what I do. I think there is a big learning curve to go from Windows to Mac. Plus there seems to be more need to drop down to the shell to do things (...)

As machines for development, what opinion do Macs deserve?

Whohub

They are faster than PC's generally, certainly for what I do. I think there is a big learning curve to go from Windows to Mac. Plus there seems to be more need to drop down to the shell to do things, this takes a bit of getting used to. I think there are some holes in terms of tools, e.g. the finder is troublesome for me, and lack of tortoise svn a pain.