Comments on: MacBook Pro for a Windows Developer – Would I do it again?

By: carl

carl — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:35:49 +0000

i agree with Sergio. You have to use it and need to use it to make it worthwhile. Why buy a piece of elegant hardware to run what 2 excellent premium machines could run for you at half the cost? That just exudes elitism. Now if you wanted to show interoperability between the two machines / OSes that would be a more dramatic story.

Personally, I run a 2.6 MBP w/ 4GB and dual boot between osx1.5.2 and windowsvista-x64-bit-sp2 … sometimes i even run VMWare on the Mac side. But usually, If I need to run windows I boot natively from Bootcamp. It goes back and forth. Depends on what mood I’m in and how I want to instantiate a new project. What are my staff going to need to run, what will the client run to best communicate her ideas?

You have to judge these two amazing technologies on the merits of the solutions they give you for the task at hand. Strategically, we got you covered by servicing all the topology permutations.

– love, C

By: dcarver

dcarver — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:57:48 +0000

I own a MAC mini, an I must admit it soured me on MAC’s in general. As far as I can see it is just anither WIMP interface and I prefer VISTA. I am a unabashed windows guy and there is enought cool hrdware for windows to keep me happy.

That being said, I love my IPOD and am glad apple is around to keep the Windows vendors moving forward on new and cool technology. I can’t wait for the windows clonw of the MAC air.

By: Sergio Pereira

Sergio Pereira — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:38:04 +0000

Here’s my take. I think that if you don’t see yourself using OS X as at least your leisure or learning OS, then you’ll eventually skip it, which would make the mac purchase not-worth. Some of the Apple hardware are pretty good but there are great things happening on the PC side as well.
I my case, I do have a mac laptop that I use at home to learn some stuff. I run windows (xp, vstudio, sql) on a virtual machine and I do not plan to use bootcamp because I’m afraid I could get sucked back into the comfortable windows world and skip the learning aspect of buying a mac.