I also have a 1.6 GHz PB / 1G ram.
Compatibility is excellent: Tapestry, Hibernate, Eclipse, Tomact,
PostgreSQL, Apache, etc etc all run just fine.
As others have written, Apple tends to be a little behind the curve
on Java updates, and raw performance is acceptable but not as good. A
2GHz Dell is going to solidly outperform a 1.6GHz Powerbook.
My own experience is that performance is still entirely acceptable,
and the pleasure of working with the *outstanding* OS more than
outweighs the performance cons. The only thing that's likely to get
you in trouble is if your company tends to be an early adopter with
new Java versions. If not, get yourself a PB. They're superb.
Cheers,
Paul
On Sep 21, 2005, at 7:20 AM, Chris Burnley wrote:
I am using a PowerBook 1.67 Ghz with 1GB ram and have not had any
problems
with eclipse and tapestry, jetty, tomcat etc. It's nice to have a
proper
unix command shell with all of the associated utiltiies and Tiger
developer
tools come with Ant already installed.
Must say though that the 1.5 VM on mac doesn't seem to be as quick
as my 3
year old Dell Inspiron 2Ghz 8200 which has half the RAM.
On 9/21/05, FRANK ROCCO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I have about 1400.00 to spend on a laptop and am undecided between an
ibook or a pc laptop.
Would there be any problems using a mac to develop java apps using
eclipse and tapestry or jsf?
I also have Java Studio Creator installed on my PC at work.
Thanks fro the help
Frank
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