tonight on the way out to dinner, we saw a really tall cumulus cloud and I commented to my wife that even though that cloud was really tall, it was still shorter than the peak of Mt. Everest.
I find those facts fascinating. My wife...not so much. I see choosing between a mac and a pc roughly in the same light. I really all boils down to what's important to you. Me, I had never even thought about a mac laptop. I'd started out with (at least in my professional life) windows 95 laptops and progressed through to xp. I'd dabbled with linux on laptops, but at the time, support wasn't great across a lot of models. Anyway, I went to a programming conference and sat next to a dev who had a mac laptop. I watched him work and saw that he wasn't experiencing the same frustrations I had with windows, e.g. a proper cli, lack of specialized small apps and generally not having to use the gui for everything. So I took a chance with a mac laptop. I'm glad I did. So much of my workflow has improved just by being able to use all those tiny unix apps. I really don't foresee me going back to windows. I've been able to automate so many more things that I could before (e.g. 'cap staging deploy' will ssh into my staging server, check out the current version from my git server, make a symlink to the new deploy directory, and bounce the web server) If I liked video editing on linux I'd probably go with a linux laptop, but maybe that will change in a couple more years. So yeah, I could buy a windows laptop for a lot less money, but for me at least, the day to day frustration wouldn't be worth the price difference. On Oct 24, 2010, at 4:32 PM, Vivec wrote: > > http://bit.ly/bhvjxz > > In order to assist me in choosing a new laptop, and in the decision > between Windows based and Mac based laptops, I decided to do a side by > side analysis of the features of both machines. > Subjective considerations such as style,feel etc. are not considered. > > The online,publicly available Configuration tools were used to > configure each machine. > > The Dell XPS 15 beat the MAC in 8 of 17 categories. > > The Macbook Pro beat the Dell in 1 of 17 categories. > > In the remaining 8 categories the two machines were identical, or > there was no discernible advantage > in the features of either one. > > With similarly configured machines, the Dell XPS 15 costs USD2,463.99 > The Macbook Pro costs USD3,997.95 > > The Macbook Pro cost 62% more than the Dell XPS 15, which beat it in 8 > of 17 categories. > > You can view the comparison table yourselves, and if I have made > errors I'll change it. > > View the table here http://bit.ly/bhvjxz (You may have to zoom it a > bit for it to appear clearly on your monitor.) > > Qualitatively, the choice should be obvious. > > Of course, if one is making a purchase these may not be the > configurations one chooses. > Even with a payment plan, US2,500 is a LOT of money for a laptop. > > But what is true at this 'high' end for these machines, is true at the > low end as well. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:329945 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
