[Shacs] switching to mac - need some advice

[Bronius Motekaitis]

Thanks, all for your continued responses both on- and off-line.
Dr B-- it's time to face the music and trade in that CPM w/320k 8" floppy
for a mac.  I hear you can compile COBOL on them, too.

Besides stability and funny marketing, the Apple looks and works very nicely
out of the box.  For those problem spots,  Windows can still run under
virtualization or on as its own boot.  It's just that if someone is waving a
machine that can handle everything (and do it well) and one that does only
one thing, it's kind of a no-brainer..  no skin off my back to accept the
beefier box.

-bronius


On 6/24/07, David Burris <csc_dsb at shsu.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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