Macs and development

semaphore said:
That is such an old antiquated reason to move to an OS. Windows 7/8 is very stable i've crashed it only once in the last 5 months.Where as when i had my macbook pro that god forsaken OS would lock up so frequently or i'd get the spinning pie wheel of death. (Fyi. I prefer OSX before you call me a fanboy)
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i run ubuntu and windows 7 and both of them have their issues every now and then.
 
Also recommend TextWrangler as an editor for the mac. I use Notepad++ on windows. Btw, you can use XCode too. Mate of mine does. I don't think it's the best env for web dev though.
 
[)roi(];10766883 said:
That doesn't sound right!;
I personally have not experienced frequent spinning wheels on any production versions (beta OS versions, faulty Apps, Disk issues for sure, as one would expect!) and this covers my iMac, Macbook Pro, and 2 Mac Minis.

Did you btw ever investigate the underlying cause, a specific app, peripheral, ...?
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Graphics card.
 
semaphore said:
That is such an old antiquated reason to move to an OS. Windows 7/8 is very stable i've crashed it only once in the last 5 months.Where as when i had my macbook pro that god forsaken OS would lock up so frequently or i'd get the spinning pie wheel of death. (Fyi. I prefer OSX before you call me a fanboy)
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i really disagree strongly on the windows 8 stability statement. Ive done 3 fresh installs and have this week tried 8.1 and all that I can say is that it makes me hate Microsoft. I work in the MS space as a consultant, so I would prefer that they got it right. I'm at the stage where I'm either going back to 7 or installing server 2012.
 
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Way69 said:
i really disagree strongly on the windows 8 stability statement. Ive done 3 fresh installs and have this week tried 8.1 and all that I can say is that it makes me hate Microsoft. I work in the MS space as a consultant, so I would prefer that they got it right. I'm at the stage where I'm either going back to 7 or installing server 2012.
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8.1 is Preview. Well i have not had a crash in months and i do a lot of low level debugging and tinkering, even to the point where i mangle addresses spaces and inject my own objects and yet to crash it. *shrug* i dunno, perhaps you have hardware faults?
 
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semaphore said:
8.2 is Preview. Well i have not had a crash in months and i do a lot of low level debugging and tinkering, even to the point where i mangle addresses spaces and inject my own objects and yet to crash it. *shrug* i dunno, perhaps you have hardware faults?
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Not even the MS consultants I work with are running 8. I only see .net devs raving about it. I think they are in love with the tiles and using the word charm.
 
Way69 said:
Not even the MS consultants I work with are running 8. I only see .net devs raving about it. I think they are in love with the tiles and using the word charm.
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I'm a .net dev and i hate tiles and charms with the passion.
 
semaphore said:
I'm a .net dev and i hate tiles and charms with the passion.
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what ive noticed is that it works a lot better on the newer hardware with ssd's, not so much on a laptop sporting a 5400rpm drive. wifi also very iffy...

back to the subject of the macbook air, i think the macbook air will make a fine dev machine. If I was to choose between having a lot of ram or an ssd, I'd always choose the ssd. The ssd's in the current airs are even faster than the ones in the macbook pro's.

running multiple vm's will prob be the biggest issue.
 
semaphore said:
Graphics card.
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Not fixed in an update?
I've once had some GPU kext issue with an older iMac (& AMD GPU) in the past, but never to the point of constant instability. My temporary workaround was to downgrade to Leopard.
 
Way69 said:
what ive noticed is that it works a lot better on the newer hardware with ssd's, not so much on a laptop sporting a 5400rpm drive. wifi also very iffy...

back to the subject of the macbook air, i think the macbook air will make a fine dev machine. If I was to choose between having a lot of ram or an ssd, I'd always choose the ssd. The ssd's in the current airs are even faster than the ones in the macbook pro's.

running multiple vm's will prob be the biggest issue.
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Agree re SSD, yet extra RAM is a must if you plan to run multiple VMs.
 
[)roi(];10774173 said:
Not fixed in an update?
I've once had some GPU kext issue with an older iMac (& AMD GPU) in the past, but never to the point of constant instability. My temporary workaround was to downgrade to Leopard.
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No, it burnt out lol.
 
[)roi(];10774173 said:
Not fixed in an update?
I've once had some GPU kext issue with an older iMac (& AMD GPU) in the past, but never to the point of constant instability. My temporary workaround was to downgrade to Leopard.
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No, it burnt out lol. So now its a 26k paper weight.
 
Glingfram said:
Definitely get the Mac. Sublime works well, OS is more stable than Windows, and IMO feels alot better to work with.
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How is it more stable?
Its been years since I had a crash/bluescreen or reboot. The mac that my company bought for a webdeveloper(who left a while after) has been lying around so I used it for a while. App crashing happened was more on osx than windows when I used it.
 
Rocket-Boy said:
How is it more stable?
Its been years since I had a crash/bluescreen or reboot. The mac that my company bought for a webdeveloper(who left a while after) has been lying around so I used it for a while. App crashing happened was more on osx than windows when I used it.
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Ho hum... there's nothing to be gained with a "my OS is better than yours" riposte..
 
[)roi(];10775259 said:
Ho hum... there's nothing to be gained with a "my OS is better than yours" riposte..
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I can't remember the last time I had an OS crash on either windows, OSX or Linux. But then I don't download just any rubbish off the Internet.....
 
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