I first switched to a Mac about 3 1/2 years ago, and have had a MBP as my primary system for about 2 years now, though at my new job I've been moved back to an XP box. I'm still on the fence. For development I still feel Windows XP wins hands down - especially with multi-monitor set-ups. Eclipse on Windows is still leagues ahead, mostly due to the way windowing works on OSX - on OSX Eclipse just doesn't really behave as well with docked/undocked windows. I also find keystrokes to be an absolute pain in the butt on OSX - where I might do something like shift-home on Windows the equivalent keystroke on the Mac will convoluted. Even after learing the keystrokes on a Mac I feel efficiency in editors is far higher on Windows. And then there's just general applications, which I find to be on average far better for Mac. Seriously, where's the Winamp equivalent for OSX? No, iTunes is definitely not it. Flash dev on the other hand for some reason I find better on a Mac. I also like having a native *nix shell available to me. Application management/installation is often less painful or time-consuming. I've pretty much decided at this point that my next replacement notebook will be an XPS rather than a MacBook (a large factor was also Apples recent .au price increases), though I'll likely keep using a Mac for a number of tasks. --Tim Rowe
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Haykel BEN JEMIA Sent: Thursday, 23 October 2008 5:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Do you use a Mac? Hi, this is probably off topic, but I noticed that most of the screencasts I watched about Flex are made on Mac OSX. Do most Flex developers work on Mac? Are most developers in the USA using Macs (as most screencasts I watched are done by people from the US)? Are their any advantages on using a Mac instead of a PC for Web/Flex development? I'm just wondering as I never used a Mac before. -- Haykel Ben Jemia Allmas Web & RIA Development http://www.allmas-tn.com <http://www.allmas-tn.com>
