On Sep 4, 9:29 pm, phidias51 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My primary needs were fairly simple: > > - write Java
OpenJDK + SoyLatte + Landon Fuller = never java/mac headaches ever again. > I couldn't justify buying hardware that I really wasn't going to use That's the real issue isn't it? Performance wise i don't get this at all - every notebook you buy today, from macbook to some budget ~650 dollar PC notebook, to the highest levels, is plenty of power for your average developer. I wonder what it is that you're doing if you're running into trouble with this (no really, I'm interested - what kind of development will still stump a modern budget notebook significantly?) The hardware I 'use' is my keyboard, my trackpad, and my screen. I'm on the road a lot, so the portability of the notebook also gets a lot of stress testing, so I prefer my notebooks as small as possible, without impinging on screen/trackpad/keyboard quality. Even if its too small for daily use (that's where a separate monitor comes in). The problem so far is that non-apple manufacturers tend not to take those things very seriously unless you're on the highest price levels, and even where they do, they tend not to advertise (honestly) about it, which makes choosing the right device a rather difficult proposal. > A number of Mac users with newer hardware are using Parallels (or > similar software) but that's never really made sense to me that I > should waste additional CPU cycles running a VM for another OS. You nailed exactly why I just don't believe your analysis. Why are you whining about CPU cycles? Who gives a crap? It's a computer. It's supposed to serve you. You can waste a million CPU cycles if it saves you 5 minutes of your life. That's what computers are supposed to - do-. I always have a VM open to test 'another' OS. It's the only way I can test my webapp on IE7 and 6 properly. Using VMs is a fact of life. Fortunately its an irrelevant fact of life: Wasting 1% of a modern CPU is utterly unnoticable. > into -- "is this a Soylatte problem or is it a Java problem?" That's not how it works. In that ALL javas suffer from this problem. We generally don't care because in 99.99% of the time, it's your code, and not java. So far soy latte has proven itself to be as stable, at least in non-graphics related stuff (I simply don't have any java gfx apps that I need to run or write, at the moment). In fact, soy latte has proven slightly more stable than apple's VMs, in that soylatte has never crashed on me, and apple's VM about 3 times in as many years. > [Macbook doesn't have enough RAM and disk space] You haven't done your research. You can stuff 4GB of RAM into a macbook (only the later models - the earlier ones topped out at 2GB), and the sky's the proverbial limit on harddisk space - it has a user servicable HDD bay, not a feature many notebooks have. I've got 'merely' 120GB in mine, but you can get 250GB notebook size harddisks, probably larger ones. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
