Please tell me your not using Dell, HP, and Gateway as your measuring stick for PC quality. 15 years ago HP and Gateway were good, but today it'd be hard to get three worse brands without going to companies no one's ever heard of. That's just in my personal experience of course, but those are three of the four brands on my 'never again' list.
-----Original Message----- From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:larrycly...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 8:54 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Need a new laptop I've had a mac or a pc since the Mac Plus. In grad school I supported myself by being the computer lab person, supporting an all mac, an all pc and and all mixed network. So what I have found through my own experience is that Macs tend to be the far more reliable machines. And when something went wrong with them, support was much better than for Dell, HP or Gateway. As for programs, there are either the same applications or the functional equivalents on the Mac. If I have to run a windows program, I just use VMWare Fusion. Remember I have an elderly MacBook right now, so it doesn't run MS Windows 2008 Server and SQL Server 2008 all that fast, but it does run it. On a more modern MacBook Pro, its very fast. That said running Apache, JBoss, CF/OpenBlueDragon/Railo and MySQL on this older macbook still is very fast. And its a nice dev platform still. larry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:329715 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
