Switching to Mac – back to PC
After about 1 week of full time Mac use I’ve decided to switch back to PC.
There are two reasons why:
Latest MacBook Pro gets uncomfortably hot. The bottom is literally painful to the touch, and the top left side where hand rests when I type is too warm and causing my hand some uncomfortable pain after 5 minutes of typing.I can’t believe MacBook Pro is released with such horrendous heat issues. I find it’ physically uncomfortable to use the device.
Tools. TextMate is a fine editor, but I don’t see why people go all goo-goo-ga-ga over it. For Flash development nothing holds a candle to FlashDevelop. Sepy is good, but FlashDevelop code insight is extremely well done. For Rails work I prefer Aptana+RadRails, but since it’s available on OSX, it’s not a factor.
MySQL Admin GUI is missing half the features its Windows counterpart has.
SVN client – no alternative to TortoiseSVN. Subversion is a major pain to use on OSX.Flash 8 is very slow. In fact, it seems to be faster under Parallels.
Things that will miss:
Adium – best instant messenger I’ve ever used.
Speed. Some things are quite a bit faster on OSX. Full Noobkit database build takes 9 minutes on OSX vs 13 minutes on Windows (Core 2 Duo E6400 with 3 GB RAM). I think it’s because Windows doesn’t let a process to use both cores.
4 comments.
It is interesting how the MacBook Pro has a heat issue for you. I had not heard that before.
I currently have a MacBook and am starting to think about my next laptop purchase. I am actually leaning towards a Dell Ubuntu Linux machine instead of a MacBook Pro at the moment, but I probably won’t pull the trigger on anything for at least another 6 months or so. Currently I have an Ubuntu desktop that is tied to my Macbook via Synergy.
If you have not tried Ubuntu yet, I would highly recommend giving it a try. You can easily create a dual boot from your Windows machine.
As for an IDE, have you tried NetBeans 6.0 Milestone 10? I discovered it last week and find it far superior to RadRails.
Lastly, I have to ask, what did you do with your week old MacBook Pro?
One day I will try Ubuntu full time. I’ve been installing and checking it out in VMWare since the first release.
Unfortunately I still rely very heavily of applications that aren’t available for Ubuntu, like Adobe and MS suites.
I have not seen NB yet and will definitely check it out because RR’s been pissing me off as of lately.
I still have the MacBook, it’s sitting on a shelf gathering dust.
Wow, did you just copy and paste this post as a comment on my blog? And who needs a GUI to write SQL or use SVN?
I will give you the heat issue. But it isn’t so hot I wont have my MacBookPro on my lap, and my Dell was almost as hot.
I use the SC Plugin for Finder which works pretty much exactly like Tortoise SVN does on Windows. Highly recommended. Then there’s always the build in support for SVN in many editors, or even the Terminal commands.
http://scplugin.tigris.org/
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