It's not that Java is slow on the Mac, the *Mac* is slow. There's a
reason Apple's *mainstream* PowerMac's are dual-CPU G5s, and that
same reason has to do with why they're switching to Intel.
Still, I have a nice new Dell laptop, and a nice new PB G4 1.67GHz,
and I always travel with the latter. The attention to detail (backlit
keyboard, anyone?), ease-of-use, and Unix configurability are top-notch.
And yeah, don't enable Dashboard. You'll get some nice JS code
pinning your CPU all over the place.
IDEA runs tolerably, but when I bill by the hour, I use my PC just
because I'm so much more productive. Up until the recent version of
IDEA, many hotkeys just didn't work. Very frustrating, as on the PC I
don't touch the mouse for long periods.
Once you have an Intel Mac, I'd be very surprised if it ran much
slower; the Apple guys have access to Sun's code and much of their
JRE is Sun code -- I assume they'll be on top of the Sun x86 codebase
for the Intel JVM.
Ben
On Sep 22, 2005, at 6:54 PM, Jt wrote:
I almost sent the same email, Western Europe is very mac friendly.
And FWIW I wrote my whole book using Eclipse on the mac (iBook G3
800, pBook G4 1.25 & pBook G4 1.5).
In my opinion the mac is just a far more elegant and dependable
machine and platform. If after using a mac you still have to ask
why you'd want to then it is probably not for you. There are great
PCs out there that will do a great job. I make my living on a
dell, but my heart belongs to my mac.
Anyone else have an iSight camera? I got one this week and my life
has changed again. :-)
Jt
PS: Macmails Message>Bounce feature is worth the price of
admission in and of itself. But I agree, I am leery of the
'niftiness' of widgets. Try doing a 'top' while Wow server status
widget is running for example.
On Sep 22, 2005, at 3:47 PM, Todd Ellermann wrote:
Your kidding yourself if you think Mac's are a U.S. centric
thing. Try
western europe a bit. Actually found Mac's in many coffee shops
when I
was in Brussels and Nice.
Been a few years now, but I don't think uncle Bill is that much more
popular in europe.
-Todd
Todd R. Ellermann
President PHXJUG.org
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