That's not so true any more. I have lots of hard-core geek friends and
many of them are moving to OSX because it's got unix under the hood,
looks great, has a ton of open-source software available for it and it
isn't Microsoft.
Those are pretty good reasons if you ask me, and yes, I've used both
at different stages in my career.
Like others here, I use a VM (Parallels Desktop) to run windows when I
need to test things under IE. I can also run up a quick Ubuntu machine
using it if need be, It's a sweet setup, and one you can't duplicate
on a Windows PC. It's the perfect web development setup because you
get access to all the OSes in one well-designed package.
Guy
On 24/10/2008, at 7:42 AM, Paul Andrews wrote:
There's a split between the media/creative industry and those who do
a real job, err I mean everybody else (that's a joke BTW).
Generally speaking Macs are to be found with media/creative/trendy
types, but rarely outside that circle.
I've lived in a development environment and until I switched to
Flash/Flex had only encountered two macs! Since moving to a flash
environment I've seen loads of macs.
I'd like to have a MacBook though..
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: Tracy Spratt
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:50 PM
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Do you use a Mac?
No, I do not. Few, if any of my business clients do either.
Tracy
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of James Douma
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 3:55 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Do you use a Mac?
I've been using a MacBook Pro for some time now. I agree with Matt
on all counts. I got one cuz you can run Windows + OS/X on it which
is useful for testing.
I have to say I still don't get why people rave about them. It's
just a computer. Its shiney and pretty and there are some features
which are sorta nice (backlit keyboard,etc) but nothing earth-
shattering. Usability-wise I find it requires more from the user
than Windows. It seems to be a Apple pattern to hide things from the
user (I guess to reduce complexity of UI and hide dangerous
functionality).
I really feel like I'm missing something ... like there's some yet
undiscovered gems ... that have escaped my view. All my attempts to
seriously explore why its so great by asking other Mac users have
failed. It's almost as if the computer you use defines who you are
as a person ... so anything thats exposed as a short-coming in the
Mac is received as a personal attack. I don't know ... its very
confusing to me why anyone would care that much one way or another.
Generally speaking I find all Actionscript/Flex develop to be much
less problematic (and often runs faster) in my VMWare Windows
installation than natively on the Mac.
Thats my 2 cents
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Brendan Meutzner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
I made the switch in February and will never look back. Don't
listen to Matt ;-)
Brendan
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Matt Chotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
So a lot of us on the Flex team now have Macs. One reason is because
we have a lot of designers who use Macs anyway. Another is because
we obviously build software for Macs, and in running Macs we can
actually do tests on both Mac and Windows (via virtual machine). I
was entirely a PC guy before I got my Mac about 15 months ago. I
don't mind the Mac, but I wouldn't say it's more stable than my PC
was, and the inconsistency in how keyboard shortcuts work and
whatnot drives me up wall. My IDE is no longer Eclipse/Flex Builder
but my email client and Word and PowerPoint, and I gotta say I like
the Windows versions better than the Mac.
I think if you are a happy Windows user and don't have a compelling
reason to use a Mac you don't need to switch just because it appears
others are using it. Not saying the Mac is bad, just saying it
hasn't made me a convert.
Matt
On 10/23/08 12:06 PM, "Clint Tredway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I recently switched to a MAC and love it.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I use a mac, but I've been using Apple products since 1979....
OSX is Unix based, and a lot of devs like the Unix- ish features. My
experience with designing and developing on a mac is that it's more
straight forward to use. If you love to inker with your OS and
hardware, go Microsoft, for a more straight forward enviroment go OSX.
Apple has an very large market share of US laptops - and gaining fast.
Alan
On Oct 23, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Matthew Shirey wrote:
Do most Flex developers work on Mac?
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