I love the Macs. Unfortunately, Ford's entire internal system is designed to run web apps on Internet Explorer which is the only reason I've not gotten one yet. Used to work for Apple as a Product Engineer way back when - great product that'll last a long time

 

Good to hear you got it fixed, what did it turn out to be?



Wow... did I miss something... you guys planning another run as well?

 

I've been a Mac guy through and through since 2003. No turning back for me

I've currently got a mini and my wife is about to get here first Mac (she's a recovering Windows user ) she is thinking about the 13" MB Pro.

Nothing stopping you from going with a Mac. At work we do all types of development, Windows, Linux, and just recently started work on an iPhone app. I do all of this (even the Windows stuff) from a MacBook Pro. I use VirtualBox to load up Windows in a VM. Works pretty darn good.

 

w00t! Congrats on the new Mac. Is this your first?

Which one did you get, the 21" or 27"? Either way, those are some sweet machines.

 

Figured you're coming down this way, may as well have you do some wheeling

Trust me, I've been a Mac guy from around 1995 when I started working for them and realized what a Mac is all about. But in the current scope of work, when I have to work on web apps for around 10 - 12 hours a day, and it won't work in Safari, Chrome or Firefox, I just don't see the point of having a Mac and running VMWare Fusion for the entire time just to run Internet Explorer. Plus, some of our dated DMS software run TN3270 emulation - hard to map those keys on the Mac

 

Yes, my 1st, but I've played quite a bit with my in-laws macbook and iMac.

By the time I added up the faster processors, more memory, and bigger hard drive, it wasn't much more, so I got the 27. HOLY FREAKING COW!!!! IT'S HUGE!!!! I love it though.

I have a couple of HD video projects of my kids with soccer and basketball I'm working on. Uploading one to youtube right now, but it's a big file so will take awhile.

I just have to keep my 10 and 7 year olds off of it so I can play with it. They know how to do a bunch on it.

 

Sounds cool, I'd love to... let me talk it over with "the boss" and see if she has any objections
I understand. Just throwing that out there in case you hadn't yet played around with some of the newer VMs. VirtualPC back in the PowerPC days blew compared to what these new Intel Macs can do. But, ultimately, if your going to be spending most of your time running PCs apps it's probably better (and cheaper) to just forgo the Mac... darn Windows



Awesome! I would say that you're going to love it, but it already sounds like you do

With kids around the house make sure you get a second HD and setup Time Machine. No telling how many times a document goes missing (because some small hands decided to delete something) and I've had to use Time Machine to bring it back from the dead.

 

I guess I'll be the lone voice to say I run Windows 7 (on a Falcon Northwest Mach V) and love it. I also have an Android phone (Nexus S) running raw Android (not a phone company version). I don't do Apple. It's a religious thing with me. <G>

 

What time do you think you'll be in the OKC area? If wheeling is not an option, let me know where you want to meet up at for lunch, and we can just meet you there.

And yep, that's exactly what my sentiments were - since over 90% of my time on the computer will be spent using IE, I'll never reap any of the benefits of having a Mac.

Not necessarily the lone voice Mark . I run Windows 7 on my laptop as well, but only because the work applications won't run on anything else but Internet Explorer . And the Android - well, have that too on the Droid, but while everyone seems to rave about Android, I've had nothing but issues out of the thing.

 

any of you western guys getting the snow ?