I've had a mac or a pc since the Mac Plus. In grad school I supported myself by being the computer lab person, supporting an all mac, an all pc and and all mixed network. So what I have found through my own experience is that Macs tend to be the far more reliable machines. And when something went wrong with them, support was much better than for Dell, HP or Gateway. As for programs, there are either the same applications or the functional equivalents on the Mac. If I have to run a windows program, I just use VMWare Fusion. Remember I have an elderly MacBook right now, so it doesn't run MS Windows 2008 Server and SQL Server 2008 all that fast, but it does run it. On a more modern MacBook Pro, its very fast.
That said running Apache, JBoss, CF/OpenBlueDragon/Railo and MySQL on this older macbook still is very fast. And its a nice dev platform still. larry On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:21 PM, denstar <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: >> >> strange my 4 year old MacBook hasn't needed any repair work. The one >> before that was in twice. Both times at Apple's expense. The iMac >> before that one again never needed any repair work. >> >> that said, the plural of anecdote is not data. > > Heh. Take a stroll through the apple care site sometime, eh? > > Fer reals, some of those threads are *thousands* of posts long, and > then Apple likes to go and do some pretty underhanded stuff, like just > deleting them and whatnot. > > I had both the wireless cutting out (only rebooting fixed it), and the > lines on the screen problem. Those two alone have struck many, many > people. > > Apple hardware isn't as magical as their P.R.. The "cover ups" do > stick in my craw tho. That's lame. > > :Den > > -- > Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin > today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god? > Friedrich Nietzsch > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:329673 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
