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<blockquote data-quote="dvvega" data-source="post: 4399389" data-attributes="member: 524"><p>Background: I'm a Windows developer, all my money is made teaching/programming in a Windows environment. Thus I should, in theory, be happy with Windows.</p><p></p><p>Reality: every machine I use at home is a Mac. Windows is craptacular!</p><p></p><p>Why? Because I can run everything I want on the Mac (windows and mac stuff) without fuss, without an issue. I've never had to reinstall ANY Mac I've used except at certain OS upgrades. Even Windows has the problem with upgrading sometimes so I don't hold it against Apple. Unfortunately this will sound cliche but everything "just works" on a mac. I've never had problems with any of them and in the house we've been through 5 macs thus far (6 if you count the old little biege box floppy only box we had for a while). None of them flopped on us, none of them died, none of them had an OS reinstall except for my Powerbook going from OS X 10.0 to 10.2</p><p></p><p>The reality is as follows:</p><p></p><p>1) You can install Bootcamp and run Windows natively on the machine. I boot into Windows when I want to play certain modern games that do not run in a virtual box.</p><p></p><p>2) VMWare runs all my other windows needs. I develop in Visual Studio 2008 under VMWare. You can use Parallels, but VMWare is a much better, more stable product IMHO.</p><p></p><p>3) The applications you mentioned, Acrobat and MS Word exist in Mac versions if you want a native one, but hey, you can run them virtually, I have and do.</p><p></p><p>4) All the software most people ever need is free for a Mac (usually). If not you will find a lot of it very cheap. There are even pieces of software like Thunderbird/Firefox etc that can be installed on both Windows and Mac OS X and they share the same user directory. Thus no matter the OS you are currently booted into you are not interrupting any of your activities.</p><p></p><p>5) The learning curve on a Mac is low. Yes there are things completely different between Mac and Windows and you will have to get used to them, however its pretty straight forward.</p><p></p><p>D</p><p></p><p>@ azhrei_fje</p><p>Umm Mail is integrated with everything like iCal, AddressBook etc ... what is it not integrated with?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dvvega, post: 4399389, member: 524"] Background: I'm a Windows developer, all my money is made teaching/programming in a Windows environment. Thus I should, in theory, be happy with Windows. Reality: every machine I use at home is a Mac. Windows is craptacular! Why? Because I can run everything I want on the Mac (windows and mac stuff) without fuss, without an issue. I've never had to reinstall ANY Mac I've used except at certain OS upgrades. Even Windows has the problem with upgrading sometimes so I don't hold it against Apple. Unfortunately this will sound cliche but everything "just works" on a mac. I've never had problems with any of them and in the house we've been through 5 macs thus far (6 if you count the old little biege box floppy only box we had for a while). None of them flopped on us, none of them died, none of them had an OS reinstall except for my Powerbook going from OS X 10.0 to 10.2 The reality is as follows: 1) You can install Bootcamp and run Windows natively on the machine. I boot into Windows when I want to play certain modern games that do not run in a virtual box. 2) VMWare runs all my other windows needs. I develop in Visual Studio 2008 under VMWare. You can use Parallels, but VMWare is a much better, more stable product IMHO. 3) The applications you mentioned, Acrobat and MS Word exist in Mac versions if you want a native one, but hey, you can run them virtually, I have and do. 4) All the software most people ever need is free for a Mac (usually). If not you will find a lot of it very cheap. There are even pieces of software like Thunderbird/Firefox etc that can be installed on both Windows and Mac OS X and they share the same user directory. Thus no matter the OS you are currently booted into you are not interrupting any of your activities. 5) The learning curve on a Mac is low. Yes there are things completely different between Mac and Windows and you will have to get used to them, however its pretty straight forward. D @ azhrei_fje Umm Mail is integrated with everything like iCal, AddressBook etc ... what is it not integrated with? [/QUOTE]
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