Top IBM Coder Picks PowerBook

IBM fellow Grady Booch can't take Microsoft any longer.

In need of a new machine, Booch opted for a shiny new 17-inch Apple PowerBook instead of a machine from his employer, Big Blue.

"Is it therefore curious for me, an IBMer, to be carrying around a non-IBM laptop?" he asks on his blog.

He answers his own question thus:

"I've decided to make the move to a Microsoft-free computing environment, having tired of the time I spend on the care and feeding of XP... I have some real work to do and would rather not be distracted by the whinings of a needy operating system that seems to come down with a cold every time I take it out into the world."

Ouch!

For a long time I've been meaning to write how the world's technological elite has migrated en masse to OS X. Bill Joy, ex-Sun, is a good example.

The problem is coming up with an unbiased list. Of course Steve Jobs runs OS X, but Bill Gates (probably) doesn't. If anyone has any ideas, please drop me a line.

(Via MacNN)