I know that it is close to the previously post on Mac Air. Sorry for that....
However could you guys please let me know pros and cons for selecting a macbook pro with leopard as my primary development laptop? I will be doing a lot of Java development.... so I really would be sad to realize that Eclipse / Glassfish / JBoss / ANT / Maven / etc. does not work optimally.
I have been using Windows XP etc. for development earlier. That was fine.
After my Windows adventures I then chose to try out Ubuntu / Mint. That was fine too.
Although this probably is a biased forum I am now considering whether I would benefit from choosing a:
- Windows 7 ( sorry guys) on some Lenovo stuff... Or,
- Mac OS X Snow Leopard on a Macbook Pro ( when it hits the market soon )
Any ideas or guidelines ?
Nicky Moelholm
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Andrew Monkhouse
author and jackaroo
Marshal Commander
Running when I need them (which seems like 100% of the time):
Eclipse
Firefox
Safari
Internet Explorer
Ant (standalone + running through Eclipse + running through Hudson jobs)
Flex builder
DB Visualizer
Open Office
Microsoft Office
So - what was it you were worried about not working correctly?
I have used Maven a couple of times on this computer, but it is not a tool I use regularly.
I also have Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux installed on this MacBook Pro. Although they rarely get booted.
I have no idea whether Windows 7 will be suitable as a development environment or not. I am hearing rumours that it is good, however none of the people I am hearing the rumours from are using it for any heavy duty applications - so I still don't know. One local paper recently did a bake-off between Windows and OS/X and declared that there was not enough difference between them as far as ease of use was concerned - but then in the small print he said he was comparing Windows 7 beta with OS/X.
The only possible down-side is that the latest JDK usually lags behind Sun's release for other platforms. This has personally never been an issue for me as I work in a production environment where updating to the latest JDK doesn't happen until long after it has been out and proven in the field.
By the time I need the "latest and greatest", it's always been available.
Oh, and like Andrew, I have no problem running any of the software that I need. I won't repeat Andrew's list, but add things like Illustrator and Photoshop (I'm also the designer for our project) to the stack of JEE products and projects.
Bear Bibeault wrote:The only possible down-side is that the latest JDK usually lags behind Sun's release for other platforms. This has personally never been an issue for me as I work in a production environment where updating to the latest JDK doesn't happen until long after it has been out and proven in the field.
By the time I need the "latest and greatest", it's always been available.
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