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By Paul Leahy, About.com Guide to Java

Poll: What System Do You Develop Java On?

Friday September 26, 2008

Very recently my laptop’s hard drive had a serious meltdown. Instead of booting up it now just taunts me by making strange clicking noises. After learning a bit of Morse code I realised that it was telling me "all your is gone….all your data is gone..".

Faced with the prospect of buying a new laptop there was a fair bit of umming an ahhing coming from the Java outpost last week. Finally I decided on a Macbook with an Intel processor, giving me the option of running Windows as a virtual machine.

Being new to a Mac system the Java development experience has all become a little bit different, leading me nicely to the first poll for the new Java site. What better way than to start with a classic question:

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