On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Manokaran K <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Am planning to go in for a new laptop. I have done some research and to me > it seems the new MacBook Air (i5, 4GB, 13", 1.35Kgs, 128GB SSD) is a good > buy! Am going to use it for web development and am considering the > following > options: > > 1. Make it a dual boot OSX and Ubuntu system > 2. Use VirtualBox to run Ubuntu (and maybe even Win7) > > Anyone here, who has gone through this, share their experience? Any specifc > pitfall that I should be aware of? > > thanks, > mano > > If you can source it from singapore, it will be a lot cheaper. I bought my mac book pro for 58k(INR). I use macports, but it is not same as your production server environment. The versions of some of the libraries in production & development may not match. Its mainly dependent on the web stack you use. As for me, i use node.js/mongodb and didnt really have any problem. i do have the problem of firing up a virtual instance of windows to test in IE(majority of users). -- @pvsundarram <http://twitter.com/pvsundarram> _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
