Frank,
I have to concur with Konstantin. I have an 1.8 Ghz iMac G5 (!) 2Gb of
RAM. Apple hardware is nothing, absolutely nothing compared to the
latest AMD64 offerings. (The fact that you want a G4 laptop makes things
even worse). You're basically way overpaying for a trendy aluminum box
with a pretty looking trash can on the screen.
I recently bought an Acer Ferrari 4000 laptop with 2Ghz AMD Turion. I've
never ever worked on anything as fast as this box. Here is a comparison.
Clean->Compile->Deploy Ant task on my G5 iMac takes about 35-40 seconds
for my (Tapestry-Spring-Hibernate) application (it is relatively large).
On my ferrari laptop, it is 12 seconds.
I just find Apple to be slow (comparatively speaking). Everything is
just slow, from UI to Java performance.
Last piece of advise, if you still decide to buy Apple. Buy it off Ebay,
there are some sweat second-hand deals there. Just don't pay Apple 50%
profit margin.
Just my 5 cents,
Sergei
FRANK ROCCO 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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