I’ve had my eye on this software for a year or two, but at $500 it blatantly out of my price range, and will be for a long to to come (but I’m not knocking on wood).
Paul Graham on why macs kick ass these days.
And open and good is what Macs are again, finally. The intervening years have created a situation that is, as far as I know, without precedent: Apple is popular at the low end and the high end, but not in the middle. My seventy year old mother has a Mac laptop. My friends with PhDs in computer science have Mac laptops. [2] And yet Apple’s overall market share is still small.
Though unprecedented, I predict this situation is also temporary.