I know, I know - you're all saying out there "who would want to develop PHP-based sites on a Mac these days?" Well, the surprising answer is that a Mac running the new OS X has almost all of the tools already built in to create sites on a local or remote machine. This SitePoint article details some of these features.

Macintosh has long been passed over by the typical Web developer, as it's considered a niche operating system and platform for development. Until OS X, Macintosh was almost solely the domain of designers and artists, and just another piece of the Web development puzzle. This is no longer the case.

OS X comes complete with a web server installed locally (Apache), an editor for those long coding sessions (vi), as well as the added stability of the whole OS being based on BSD, a variant of Unix. Macs are really coming into their own, with even major software vendors getting into the fray (Microsoft, Macromedia, etc.) with their own software...