Hey, I'm one of those lithium-lick , so i dunno if i'm allowed to answer (using macs since the beginning, and perhaps forever :) ). But i'll do it anyway :D :
I would say that the mac comes with Xcode, and the Dell PC doesn't... It's a really great programmation environment, that has really great features when used with mtasc. (for example it points you directly to the line of the class where you have a compilation error and things like that. If you don't want to play with windows (but why the hell would you play when you can code :) ) Parallels is the best solution imho. But if you buy the mac an plan to use parallels regulary, you'll need to add the windows license price to the price of your macbook... ;) As said before, RAM is really important on a mac, especially if you want to use some rosetta (PPC emulator for intel macs) applications (like adobe softs, which are always only PPC-native). The mac & mac os X is actually imho the most confortable solution for everyday computer working, apart if you are a server admin, when in this case you could really prefer linux.... (but there are mac linux distributions :p ) So as it is the only hardware that offers you the possibility to run so much different systems, it's surely the better solution. Oh and if you buy a macBook, don't forget to take the 3-years appleCare, it's a real good choice if you plan to keep your mac for more than 1 year and if you use it often (i mean more than 1 hour per day...) Cheers, Thibaut _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
