Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Fri Sep 14 12:29:10 CDT 2012
Hi Doug -- Thank you for sharing your experience. I'm planning to purchase a MacBook Pro 17'', i7 (Ivy Bridge), 16(?)GB - anybody here have got something like that already? Yes, that may sound as "burning money" but I need such a "toy" for both iPhone/iPad and MS Windows/Phone/Tablet + Visual Studio 2010/2012 + MS Office Pro + ... development and I wanted to be mobile, I mean being able to develop software using the same laptop/system at home/office, or in my village home, or on the road :), etc. and I'm partially keeping such a development practice using my current 5 years old DELL Inspiron 9400 (of course no way for iPhone/iPad development on it) - so I'm expecting that investing in a MacBook Pro 17", i7,... should pay back well in a coming 5 years period... ...and five years later Visual Studio and MS Office Pro and iPhone/iPad ASK/development tools... should be affordable to run on a "cloud" I guess so then a simple netbook with a large external display or just a Windows Phone with such an external display/projector + external keyboard would be "all a developer would need to be effective..." :) Thank you. -- Shamil Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:43:40 -0700 от Doug Steele <dbdoug at gmail.com>: > > > > >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 > > > -- > AccessD mailing list >AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >