I wish to buy a laptop for software development work and home entertainment. Should I buy a Mac book?
I have never used a Mac before but have heard good reviews. I never intend to develop software for Mac platform. I mainly develop in C, C++, Java. Any suggestions?
I use a PC with Windows or Linux at work for development. Can I create the same development environment on a Mac book and expect to compile and test my code without any changes whatsoever?
I say no to a Mac because you can only use Mac software on it nothing else.
i just got a new laptop and its a gateway platnium.its really cool and its very sleek. i got it at bestbuy.you should look into it!
I would say no but thats just me because i’ve never had a mac and only used them at schools.
Pc’s are better for programming by the way
For what you are doing, an Intel based laptop running Windows or linux would be fine.
Mac makes up MAYBE 10% of the market. If you want to write software compatible with Mac, then by all means get one. If you are aiming to be compatible with Windows, and need to test your compiled output on a PC, I think Mac would be a bad choice. A VERY expensive bad choice, at that.
OSX isn’t much good for that, but Macs are Intel now. You can buy a Macbook and install XP on a second partition along with OSX. We do it on our new Macs at work, and it works fine. Apple gives you Boot camp for free. It will make a partition for Windows without hurting the OSX, and make you a drivers CD for XP. You can see the XP partition from OSX, so moving files netween the two is easy.
better an expensive pc laptop
what people failed to understand is that mac CAN RUN window xp and mac verision on same computer… i would reccomend you to code in xp verision, or vista or whatever.. and then have mac version to run it.. to see if there’s any problem.. u get best of both.
i know because i m a programmer and i use java and c++