Doug Steele
dbdoug at gmail.com
Fri Sep 14 11:43:40 CDT 2012
Hi Shamil: You can always use Bootcamp which effectively runs Windows directly on a Mac. I've got a fairly new Macbook Pro - 2.3ghz I5, 8gb ram. I just did some quick timing tests opening an A2003 database and running a big report. I also did the same on my older 2.66ghz Core2 Duo 4gb Windows 7 32bit box. I just counted off the time manually, so this is pretty rough. But repeatedly running the same report on Bootcamp (32 bit Windows 7), in Parallels (64 bit Windows 7) and on the Windows machine all seemed to take the same time - about 12 seconds on all versions. Psychologically at least, my experience with using all 3 approaches is that I can't tell the difference. Doug On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru>wrote: > Hi All -- > > I do like my Windows Phone 7.5(:)) and it has a set of features, which are > good enough for me currently, I like Windows 7 and as I have written here > several times I have no any objections on new "Metro" UI for coming Windows > 8: desktop, tablet, phone. I suppose I'm rather effective VS2010/C#/... > developer, my customers like my work... > > ... but it .... "seems that the future of Windows development is > happening largely for corporate environments and customers. I don’t take > issue with this other than being someone who doesn’t live or work inside a > corporate environment at home..." (source: "50 Reasons to Switch from > Microsoft Windows to Apple’s Mac OS X" - > http://chris.pirillo.com/50-reasons-to-switch-from-microsoft-windows-to-apples-mac-os-x/). > .. > > ... IOW I do plan to start learning iPhone/iPad (and Android) custom > development really soon and I have to find what is the most effective yet > as affordable as possible combination of hardware and software to keep both > MS Windows (desktop, Phone, tablet) and iPhone/iPad and Android > development... > > I suppose that getting a Mac instead of a PC is unavoidable but should I > additionally have an MS Windows driven box/laptop or running MS Windows > with Visual Studio on Mac under VMWare Fusion or Parallels is as speedy as > running MS Windows and Visual Studio on a "bare Intel processor metal"? > Does anybody here have a real life experience of MS WIndows development on > a Mac? Please advise. > > FYI: Some more links on the OT subject: > > A hardcore Windows guy gets a Mac > > http://www.davidalison.com/2008/02/hardcore-windows-guy-switches-to-mac.html > iPhone Development On Windows – 7 Options > http://maniacdev.com/2010/01/iphone-development-windows-options-available/ > iPhone development on Windows > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/113547/iphone-development-on-windows > http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=537583 > Thank you. > > -- Shamil > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >