Thank you Steve, I appreciate your words.
Actually I've wanted to do this for years, but the demand just wasn't there, considering I have in the past spent most of my time building intranet-style business applications. I have yet to encounter a large corporation that uses Mac workstations. But now I'm working on a very large public-facing system that happens to have a fair contingent of Mac users. For the past couple years I regularly test with Mozilla-based browsers i.e., Firefox, which I understand renders consistently on Mac as it does on Windows. It's that d*** Safari that's the problem ;-) > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 11:14 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: [OT] Mac OS question > > Well as long as you are testing with Mac OS which of course > was the original point of this thread. I'm sure the other Mac > users would agree, we absolutely hate those Windows > developers that are so narrow minded as to only test with the > latest and greatest and expect everyone else to spend as much > time keeping things up-to-date. > > I hope that many more Windows developers take your approach > and treat the other platforms with respect. > > As a Mac user... > > Thank you! > > > Steve Smith > > Oakbridge Information Solutions > Oakville Office: (416) 628-0793 > Cambridge Office: (519) 489-0142 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: www.oakbridge.ca <http://www.oakbridge.ca/> > > Certified DayLite <http://www.oakbridge.ca/daylite.tml> > Premier Partners > > > On 27-May-06, at 6:13 PM, Scott Cadillac wrote: > > > Hi Stephen, > > I used to think the same thing about Virtual Machines, > but I've been using VMWare now nearly everyday for over 3 > years now - and I've never encountered a visual or function > difference in how a Virtual Machine performs over real hardware. > > There is a slight performance decrease of course, when > compared to the host Operating System, and full-motion video > will struggle a little, but it's no less different than > running on a real machine with slightly lower hardware specs > than the host machine. > > I even spent two years doing a huge development project > with Visual Studio, SQL Server 2000 and Crystal Report where > the whole works was hosted inside a Windows 2000 Advanced > Server running as a Virtual Machine. Never had a problem. > > I can boot all versions of Windows, and a wide matrix > of browsers for testing. I even have Ubuntu Linux running for > testing some real crap browsers. > > And as I type, I happen to be installing Windows Vista > Beta2 - on the same machine. > > Ain't software fun? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 1:28 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: [OT] Mac OS question > > I'm not sure what form of testing you are > hoping for but if > is to test an application that will eventually > be viewed on a > Mac, then using any form of VM is not the way > to go. I don't > trust VM for true testing of an end user's experience. > > Also look into the cost of OS X on it's own vs. > the cost of a > Mini. According to the Apple Canada web site: > > > Mac Mini $699 in the base configuration which > includes OS X > Mac OS X $149 for single user > > $550 might seem like a lot but I believe that > it will be well > worth the investment. Especially if you run > Boot Camp on it > which will allow it to run as an extra Windows machine. > > Just my 2 cents (which hey, is almost worth 2 > cents US!!!) > > Steve Smith > > Oakbridge Information Solutions > Oakville Office: (416) 628-0793 > Cambridge Office: (519) 489-0142 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: www.oakbridge.ca <http://www.oakbridge.ca/> > > Certified DayLite > <http://www.oakbridge.ca/daylite.tml> > Premier Partners > > > On 26-May-06, at 9:27 AM, Scott Cadillac wrote: > > > For those of you in the know, > > I am considering an attempt to install Mac OS X as a > VMWare virtual machine, as a test environment > for my apps > with Safari and other Mac-based browsers. There > are several > unofficial instructions on how to do this, with > a bit of searching. > > My question is: Does the latest version of OS X > automatically support Intel, or do I need a > special version? > > http://www.apple.com/macosx/ > > When I click on the link to buy, the hardware > requirements simply says "PowerPC G5, G4 or G3 > processor". > > Any insight would be helpful, thanks. > > Scott Cadillac, > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scott.cadillac.bz > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > __________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to > http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > __________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to > http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > __________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to > http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > __________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
