Skilled Illusionist
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Now if you wanted to go with a windows computer you will spend less and get something [STRIKE]just as powerful[/STRIKE] significantly more powerful than these Mac's.
Go Windows. Easier for you to run with, while learning game programming, you DON'T need to learn a new OS. The OS itself doesn't improve anything programming-wise that I've ever noticed, and the hardware doesn't offer any benefits over a Windows machine. Stick with what you're comfortable using, save money and develop off a Windows desktop machine. Macs have nice screens and that's pretty much all the praise I can round up.
What are you developing for, PC/MAC or mobile devices? Just interested as I'm developing a game at the moment too, haha.
@joellol So you're going to make mobile games for iOS and Android? There are ways to code for both in either OS, depending on the games and languages you code in. There are IDEs for either OS and cross-platform ways to handle it such as wrappers, so either way picking Windows won't affect Mac OS development too much, as long as you have an emulator set up. And then you keep the flexibility of Windows.
If you do not do web design/development (with tools such as composer)