Re: Should I buy an Apple or Windows
- From: pa_nihill@xxxxxxxxx (Patrick Nihill)
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:46:17 +0100
Raghav <sharma.raghvendra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Guys,
I am a programmer, been doing stuff on PC since "whenever". I already
have a Dell Laptop running win-xp, and things are fine.
However, my need is to have have a unix based system to work with.
Needs include :
- a genuine unix like environment to work with
- a reliable system in general. Windows have its own issues.
I've found Windows and OS X (the latest version of OS X, anyway) to be
roughly equal in reliability and stability. Both are very solid systems.
A rough example of what I intend to do on mac is -
- program with perl, c, java etc..
Programming in Perl on OS X is pretty much identical to using any other
Unix-like system. C depends on what sort of programming you expect to be
doing, really. If you're just learning the language itself, then OS X
will do as well as anything else. If you're planning on developing GUI
applications against a particular API, things become trickier.
Java on OS X is fair-to-good these days. Back when Macs had PowerPC
processors, Java development was something of a nightmare, mainly due to
the crippling slowness of Java on OS X compared to Windows.
Sun don't port their JVM (Hotspot) to OS X, only to Windows, Linux and
Solaris, so Apple create their own. They were typically badly lagging in
both versions and speed. There's been plenty of improvement since then,
however, and on an Intel Mac Java is close enough in speed, and Apple
have a solid build of Java 1.6 for OS X available to download.
- play along oracle and related stuff and experiment
Oracle 10g is certified on the Mac for all your Oracle needs. If you're
planning on developing Enterprise Java on the Mac, be aware that neither
Weblogic nor Websphere are supported on OS X. Weblogic will install and
run fine though, so you could develop on the Mac and deploy to a Solaris
box. Or you could use JBoss or Glassfish.
Apart from the major stuff mentioned above, it's difficult to know if
the Mac would be a good choice for you without getting an idea of your
workflow and the kinds of tools you're currently using. Some stuff might
not be available on the Mac. For example, you can't run Rational
Clearcase on Mac OS X. Mind you, I can't imagine why anyone with any
shred of sanity left in them would ever want to use Clearcase...
- general internet browsing and related usage
Yes, OS X has plenty of good apps for all the general sort of stuff.
.
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