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"That mac is meant to be for programmers or programmers use mac..."

I seriously don`t know who told you that programmers use a mac. MAC was never designed for programmers, rather it was purely designed for home usage and for multimedia engineers (i.e. people who develop multimedia thingies). Please perish the thoughts that MAC is meant to be for programmers or programmers use MAC , i believe hardly 20% of programmers world-wide uses MAC for their programming purpose, unless and until they want to learn mac programming specifically.

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"Remember that mac os x is based on bsd unix..."

If you mean a commercial proprietary Operating system which is distributed commercially, you will find that commercial distribution itself costs money and that Microsoft has literally made it more expensive to do so. There may well be a few, however I believe a distribution of Linux in one of the sub-continent's languages is likely, at this time, to be more mature as an OS not just because there are so many components they can or have worked with, but because there is so much freedom for small groups to work on the specific tasks THEY want to see accomplished without someone telling them what has to be done. That Tamil Nadu supports it may not hurt either. That is why I have linked to the Indian Linux project in Sources. Remember that Mac OS X is based on BSD Unix, so using an Indian Linux (even if acquisitions such as the Bank Of India's are of foreign distros like Red Hat) may be something useful to learn for your future.

Q. Who gets paid more money? mac programmers at apple or pc programmers at microsoft?
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"Either company to write software for the mac or pc..."

You don't have to work for either company to write software for the Mac or PC . You can actually write software for both platforms using the right development languages (Java, C, C++, .NET Framework / Mono). In regards to salary, I'm not sure what either company pays, but I would imagine it relatively close. Statistically you will end up working for someone other than either Apple or Microsoft since the vast majority of development jobs are elsewhere. I am an IT Manager with about fifteen years in the IT world. I've worked jobs from software phone support to software QA to systems engineering to development. I'm not particularly picky about the languages any developer knows as long as he/she is familiar with good programming techniques, has experience with database development and is generally familiar with the languages I need him/her to know. Also, knowledge of the platform being written to (Windows, O/S X, Linux) is very important to me...it's hard to be a great developer if you're not familiar with the platform you're writing for. I'd suggest sticking with C++, Java or C# (or a C-like language) since they are all widely used, and are all very syntactically and structurally similar .

Q. Programmers, i want to write programs using java, i had textpad installed on my windows computer, have a mac?
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You could try Eclipse, it's free and widely used. Have a look at http://devworld.apple.com/tools/eclipse.html, or go to http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ to get a copy.

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"Any mac notebook would meet your needs..."

Any Mac notebook would meet your needs. But the current "best" one is the 17" Macbook Pro, although my personal choice is the 15" Pro.

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"Take into consideration these things before you decide to switch to macs..."

By all means, however, take into consideration these things before you decide to switch to Macs. 1. Majority of programs still work on Windows, although some work for Mac, you can't get the latest version or you have to buy a Mac Version which does not have equal capability. 2. You only have only one option when you buy a Mac, you can't have too many choices in terms of hardware choices since Apple sets only limited choices, Windows have many hardware providers so you can choose the best deals to suit your needs. Mac computers are notorious for being expensive and at the same time hardware is not as updated as those for Windows. 3. Although very few viruses are made for Macs, it does not necessarily mean that it is virus-proof, the main reason why there are many viruses for Windwos is that it is more profitable to do so since so many computers can be attacked, since Windows occupies almost 90% of the computers in the world while Macs are less than 10%.

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open a terminal cd ~/Documents ls | grep Converter.java All that aside, what you really probably want to do is go to eclipse.org, and download eclipse for Java. Get used to developing in a GUI, because it sounds like your command line skills are weak and that you're having trouble with the way the file system works in BSD. after additional details: javac Convertor.java javac is the command for the compiler and Convertor.java is the name of the file. If you get a CLASSPATH error, we're going to need to do a bit more, try it and come back to me.

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"The mac is a very good platform for developing java programs..."

The Mac is a very good platform for developing Java programs. You may need to install the developer tools from the OS X DVD before you can compile your Java files. In the terminal, type in "javac -version" (without the quotes). If it gives you a version number, then you already have the proper developer tools installed. If you prefer to use an IDE for development (which I recommend, once you get the hang of doing it on the command line), have a look at Eclipse or Netbeans. Both are freely available for the Mac and provide some very useful features such as code completion, syntax highlighting, and on-the-fly code checking.

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