[Shacs] switching to mac - need some advice

[David Burris]

I do not understand all this discussion about non-entities?
Dr. B

ccheney at cheney.cx wrote:
> Bronius,
>
> You'll probably want at least 2GB of RAM if you are planning to run 
> Photoshop and Parallels(*). The MacBook Pro's come with 2GB default 
> though so you should be set for that. If you want 4GB though you would 
> probably be better off buying the memory yourself and upgrading it 
> since the Apple 4GB upgrade appears to cost $750, 4GB (2x2GB) can be 
> found online elsewhere for $225(*).
>
> As far as hard drive space goes that depends on how many photos you 
> want to store on the laptop, don't forget that Photoshop PSD's can be 
> quite large. Also, add in the space you need for Windows as well.
>
> I recently bought a Toshiba A205-4577(*) laptop for $750 from Best 
> Buy. It's not a Mac laptop but it does have a Core 2 Duo 1.73GHz, 1GB 
> RAM, 160GB HD, DVD-RW, firewire, 11g, and webcam. I run Ubuntu Gutsy 
> on my laptop. By the way I work for Canonical/Ubuntu on OpenOffice now.
>
> Chris
>
> http://www.parallels.com/
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820178166
> http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/rdet.jsp?poid=368632
>
> Quoting Bronius Motekaitis <bronius at bcswebstudio.com>:
>
>> 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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