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.
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