[Shacs] switching to mac - need some advice

[Bronius Motekaitis]

Thanks for the tips Kevin.  Yeah, it's a notebook I'm after.
I have a glossy Sony Vaio *blliaaahhh*, and I find it more of an impediment
regardless of my end use.  This one replaced my flat (matte?) screen which I
much preferred-- it was just as bright as far as I could tell.. You wrote
glossy for multimedia-- why is that?

-bronius


On 6/23/07, Kevin A. Estis <stdkxe14 at shsu.edu> wrote:
>
> I've been back on a Mac for (I guess) about four years now. Although I
> don't do any coding (thankfully) I do require the ability boot into
> multiple OS's, run *nix utils, and run standard email/office applications
> (also stuff like encryption/PKI, etc.).
>
> Are you looking at a laptop or desktop? If you are looking for a laptop
> I'd go with the MacBook Pro 17" (that's what I have) or the 15". The extra
> real estate on helps when you have multiple windows open and the video is
> better than a MacBook. Don't do anything less than 2 GB of RAM if you want
> to run multiple OS's (especially if you use Parallels or vmware instead of
> BootCamp). Get the glossy display if you plan on doing any multimedia.
> Regardless of which hard disk you get I'd get the 7200 RPM (if nothing
> else the extra cache helps).
>
> I'm not up on the latest desktop line but have a couple Mac Mini's around
> the house and am really happy with them....same stuff applies: 2GB of RAM
> and the faster HD.
>
> Once you get up and running if you'd like to drop me an email I can send
> you a list of apps that a lot of people use and like.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Kevin
>
>
> On 6/23/07, Bronius Motekaitis <bronius at bcswebstudio.com> wrote:
>
>     I need to spec a new laptop for myself, and I want to make The Switch
> (tm).  Would someone please toss me some simple specs for a decent Mac
> notebook from a developer's perspective?  I'll be doing some degree of
> Photoshop'ing and lots of web development.  Might run a local apache
> or some other web server to run rails and an accompanying IDE.  Oh,
> and will definitely need to switch over to Windows on occasion, at
> least for old times sake...
>
>     Advice?
>
>     wanna be mac guy,
>     -bronius
>
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