just to add in one of the pro's in my list of pro's and cons, i can
get a fairly high spec pc for relatively low price (the msi laptops
have quad-core processors, 1gb nvidia 9800 gs graphics cards and blu
ray drives for less than a macbook pro. I would be more prepared to
swallow the extra cost of another mbp if they had better spec'd
graphics cards
a
On 10 Aug 2009, at 15:45, Matt Gitchell wrote:
FDT, which I love. Love! It does take a while to get to a point
where you're
maximizing what it offers your workflow, but so worth it.Switched
from PC
(and FlashDevelop) to Mac at the beginning of the
year, not a huge difference on balance
as each are annoying in their own way.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) <
alla...@receptacledesign.com> wrote:
i'd completely understand if nobody wanted to touch this one but i
thought
i'd throw it out there
a bit of background: I've been developing on mac for 7 or 8 years,
the
first 5 were as an enthusiastic amateur but more recently i've gone
full
time flash developing. As time has progressed, i've started to use
more
tools to help with coding, I've tried FDT on Eclipse for mac which
i found
(at the time) to be overpriced, overfinicky, flaky and unreliable
(i realise
that with the release of the standalone FDT package the flakiness is
something that has been rectified) and flexbuilder just doesn't
have any of
the text manipulation tools that a good coding IDE should imo
(duplicating /
transposing lines of code shouldn't require a mouse) so i've
settled for
using FlashDevelop (which i LOVE) with Parallels as a vm to run it.
This setup has kept me going for a while but it's not without it's
problems: the keyboard changes from my mac-based Flash IDE to the
pc-based
FlashDevelop IDE has been a headache, I have 3 sources of program
failures
as opposed to 2 (Flash, FlashDevelop AND Parallels) which, while
they don't
account for a lot of my day, are usually pretty savage when they do
occur.
However, as I've been using a pc at work, I've really started to
seriously
consider simply buying a pc on my next round of hardware spend (end
of this
year, beginning of next) and be done with it. The mac will always
be at the
center of my home media but this is for my take along, work machine.
So the question I'm really getting to is, how many people use osX
(using
windows in boot camp doesn't count) and how many are using windows
for their
main work machine and what kind of software setup are you using?
thanks for your time guys
Allandt
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