Comments on: Another Apple Convert http://curiousjames.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/another-apple-convert/ A blog about technology, travel, and random thoughts Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:34:00 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: dr1ft3r http://curiousjames.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/another-apple-convert/#comment-7 dr1ft3r Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:38:42 +0000 http://curiousjames.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/another-apple-convert/#comment-7 Patrick - Good to hear from you. Excellent time in Brighton the other week. I don't think I've been using the Apple quite long enough to actually demand a mac as a condition of my hiring, but I'll re-evaluate this in another year's time ;-). I've heard good things about VMWare, so give me a little time and I'll let you know what if the mixing of Windows and mac skinned windows bothers me as much as it does you :-p. Patrick – Good to hear from you. Excellent time in Brighton the other week. I don’t think I’ve been using the Apple quite long enough to actually demand a mac as a condition of my hiring, but I’ll re-evaluate this in another year’s time ;-) . I’ve heard good things about VMWare, so give me a little time and I’ll let you know what if the mixing of Windows and mac skinned windows bothers me as much as it does you :-p.

]]> By: PatrickQG http://curiousjames.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/another-apple-convert/#comment-6 PatrickQG Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:29:05 +0000 http://curiousjames.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/another-apple-convert/#comment-6 Parallels is great - Coherence (Unity in VMWare) makes it feel like slightly oddly skinned windows, without having the full (visual) weight of the Windws desktop as well. Admittedly I pretty much just use it for Windows browser testing (I have VMs for XP+IE6, XP+IE7, Vista+IE7, each with a different version of Firefox as well). As to my work... I said, when I was at my first interview that it didn't have to be a mac, but I had to be able to install linux on it. I survived on the Mac mini they'd bought as a spare machine for 3 months, and then got a MacBook Pro (that I would've bought myself had I not been asked to go out for coffee just before ordering it). Parallels is great – Coherence (Unity in VMWare) makes it feel like slightly oddly skinned windows, without having the full (visual) weight of the Windws desktop as well. Admittedly I pretty much just use it for Windows browser testing (I have VMs for XP+IE6, XP+IE7, Vista+IE7, each with a different version of Firefox as well).

As to my work… I said, when I was at my first interview that it didn’t have to be a mac, but I had to be able to install linux on it. I survived on the Mac mini they’d bought as a spare machine for 3 months, and then got a MacBook Pro (that I would’ve bought myself had I not been asked to go out for coffee just before ordering it).

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