Mac + Windows?
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14 Jun 2012, 13:47
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I've been waiting 6 weeks for a new Intel Ivybridge Ultrabook and its taking FOREVER for companies to get their act together and actually have a stock ready product. However I could just walk into the apple store and pickup a macbook air and install windows.
Has anyone done this, is there anything I should know? Anything I would lose out on by doing so?
Has anyone done this, is there anything I should know? Anything I would lose out on by doing so?
Better gimme moneys if you dont need them.
im not all to familiar with the hardware specs myself, but i can at least say ultrabooks look better in my eyes :*E
ASUS ultrabooks are so sexy :(
Seriously though, it is freaking easy but I wouldn't recommend using windows at all ( why not use mac osx ) I don't see any reason at all to use windows if you are not going to use it for gayming. Essential apps could very easily be run using parallels and coherence mode or Wineskin / Cider and i don't really know that much consumer software that isn't available for mac as well.
But yeah if it is windows he wants, I'd say get some asus ultrabook and not bother with an air.
my guess anyways.
I also like having open programs tile at the bottom of my screen where i can whip my mouse down to switch window. I like it when my close button closes applications because I like to manage my resource usage. I like having access to 1000s more programs and a much better programming IDE. I like having a decent audio player. I like having a decent filesystem and explorer. I like having DirectX to graphic accelerate my browser experience as well as gaming and any apps that run DirectX, since it is vastly superior to OpenGL. I think almost every piece of software written by Apple is shit such as RealPlayer, iTunes, Air wireless, safari etc etc. I don't like that mac programmers were so shit they couldn't even write a multi-threaded OS and so stole Debian Linux in 1994 and made it shit but keep coming back to update the Kernel because they are incapable of such skilled work. I like that Photoshop runs 10x faster on DirectX. I like that I can move around quicker on my Windows machine than any of the other professional designers or developers who work with me who use mac, even though they are as quick as they can be.
That you prefer the windows way of how apps run is great, but that is just your opinion and doesn't make OSX shit.
You are comparing DirectX to OpenGL directly? So you did not realize that OpenGL is a graphics library only and DirectX is more than that? ( + that you can get more frames out of openGL )
Having access to more programs doesn't mean they are of higher quality. Currently there is no web development tool out there that slightly matches the features and polish of Coda 2.0, however as a Windows user and tweaker I highly doubt you ever heard of the word polish and smoothness. I do agree that Xcode 4 is not without problems, but that doesn't make the whole development environment shit ( auto layout is extremely handy, for instance ).
What are you even attacking the old Mac OS or its development for? If you talk like that I also hope you know that Mac OS X is based on the technologies developed at NeXT and not the old Mac OS which had terrible memory management.
So you think safari is shit, please do tell me you think webkit is shit then, I'd make me laugh.
It is nice that you like windows ( or linux maybe ) but that doesn't make the other option shit, deal with it.
I am not a 'professional' developer ( just yet ) as I actually graduated today and will go to college soon! ( So that is who I am )
The closed 'feeling' as you might say never was a problem for me though and the things I need from the source is opeon ( like CoreFoundation Lite, great stuff ). It is difficult to like Cocoa / Objective-C, it is something you really have to get used to.. once you got into it it is a great way of developing at a great pace. My experience with .NET is next to zero ( apart from some hello world printing.. ) I don't know if you know about the latest release of the macbook pro 15'' with retina display, which doesn't allow you to change the memory. If apple is going to keep pushing that on other products ( and they will ) I will not be a returning customer.
Currently using Zend ( still fairly new to it though ), as I had a MVC Background with Cocoa / Objective-C it felt really right and fell in love with the framework right away ( I often get criticized for not using Ruby on rails.. )
and yeah, you can't change the memory in the 15'' retina... the stock macs are usually decently priced ( on PCs you can cut away stuff to save money, when you know what you are doing this ofc is always an advantage ) but apple overcharges a LOT on the upgrades, so I usually get a mac and simply put in the upgrades myself. This however with the 15'' retina is not possible and therefore a potential dealbreaker ( I don't have the money to get it nor the use for it anyways atm ). I think my future setup, as I still love playing games, will probably be a CM690 with some decent hardware and a macbook next to it for the other stuff ( probably the one i have right now, the ssd made it 3 years younger :D )
what ya think of windows 8 for desktops, they did a great job performance wise but when I wanted to get back to metro I kept clicking the IE9 icon rather than the button in the corner..
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9228070/Retina_MacBook_Pro_least_repairable_notebook_ever_says_iFixit
It's also very simple to do and OS X does all the hard work for you. File systems stay exactly the same and you can access each of the partitions in both OS's if you needed files etc.
If you are planning to use the machine as primarily Windows, then it's a waste of money unfortunately and I would just wait, but I personally couldn't go back to windows full time after using Mac OS X.
Really awesome for video editing, photoshopping, creating etc.
But besides that and some mainstream things like facebook and stuff its useless.
Bootcamp works tough, its just that it will never work as fluid as a normal laptop/pc.
im in 3rd year now.
I've been dual-booting MacBook Pro's for years, no issues.
e: im in the same situation myself (need a good laptop for studies), and need to remind myself that waiting just a little bit longer will pay out :p
still waiting...