So for the last couple months I have been thinking about getting a MacBook Pro. Growing up I always had apples or macs for my home computer. It wasn't until I got to college that i bought a PC. It was easier for me to do development on it at school, and to be quite honest in the work place.
Ever since Apple moved to the Intel platform, and Macs can now run anything either on OS X or with any flavor of Windows running in emulation, I really have no excuse not to use a mac, except cost.
Well the cost myth has pretty much been debunked thanks to the following post... To add to that, now three people I work with have MacBook Pros. Every time I see them do demos with their macs or just work with them in general, I do get a little jealous.
The other reason I have held back is because I am worried, that although it is a mac that I would work emulated all the time. Since 90% of the work I do is .Net development would I benefit from the Mac part of the Mac. Will the emulation really slow down the development process? Do I have to use ITunes?
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Friday, June 15, 2007
Monday, January 22, 2007
Five Things You Didn't Know About Me
So Dan Miser tagged me to carry on the 5 things you didn't know about me. So here goes.
1) The first computer I had was an Apple IIe and the first program I wrote on it was a game called lemon catch. The idea was to move along the bottom of the screen catching falling lemons. It really wasn't that hard of a game, but I was only 8 or 9.
2) When I went away to college, I wanted to be a physical therapist. Unfortunetly I did not enjoy my 7:00 am Friday lab so I dropped the class and changed majors. I think I remember saying "How hard could computer science be?".
3) The Dilbert cartoon still makes me laugh and I wish it was still on TV.
4) I have had the same number of Apple/Macintosh computers as I have had Windows/Dos computers. 3 each. On the apple side I had IIe, Mac LC, and a Duo 230. On the windows side, I had a non name brand Pro 200 pc, and of course a Dell, and a HP.
5) I have a blog. According to Google Analytics, I get roughly 5 visitors a month.
So now that you know 5 more things bout me I get to tag some people. I am going to tag James Roome, Brian Kapellusch, Cobbie Berhend, and Vibhu Srinivasan
1) The first computer I had was an Apple IIe and the first program I wrote on it was a game called lemon catch. The idea was to move along the bottom of the screen catching falling lemons. It really wasn't that hard of a game, but I was only 8 or 9.
2) When I went away to college, I wanted to be a physical therapist. Unfortunetly I did not enjoy my 7:00 am Friday lab so I dropped the class and changed majors. I think I remember saying "How hard could computer science be?".
3) The Dilbert cartoon still makes me laugh and I wish it was still on TV.
4) I have had the same number of Apple/Macintosh computers as I have had Windows/Dos computers. 3 each. On the apple side I had IIe, Mac LC, and a Duo 230. On the windows side, I had a non name brand Pro 200 pc, and of course a Dell, and a HP.
5) I have a blog. According to Google Analytics, I get roughly 5 visitors a month.
So now that you know 5 more things bout me I get to tag some people. I am going to tag James Roome, Brian Kapellusch, Cobbie Berhend, and Vibhu Srinivasan
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Apple iPhone
So Apple had their big keynote address. Steve Jobs got in front of all the fanboys, and fangirls and announced a bunch of new products. The product getting the most press right now is the iPhone.
The iPhone has been rumored in the works for the last year. It basically is the morphing of a video iPod and a cell phone. For $499 + a 2 year Cingular wireless contract you can get a 4gb version. For $599 you can up that to 8gb. The phone also has some other useful things like a large touch screen, Bluetooth, WiFi, a 2 mega pixel camera and other applications like Google Maps, Safari, and iTunes (of course) with CoverFlow. Jobs said the phone will ship in June if you live in the US.
Now lets break this down a bit.
First, it is not a smart phone. There does not seem to be SDKs to support third party development. For example, where I work we do a lot of business applications that run on pocket pcs, this includes devices that have phones. By not allowing for third party development I believe the business world will not adopt this phone. So that only leaves consumers as buyers. I realize there are many people out there ready to waste money on this product but most consumers will find cheaper alternatives that offers similar options. I personally don't want or need a smart phone, so this is not the deal breaker for me.
The deal breaker for me is the iPhone ties you to Cingular wireless. Where I live Cingular provides terrible coverage. Sure Milwaukee is in there plan, and has good quality, but If I want to visit my parents, I might as well leave my phone at home. In fact you venture to far from our interstate highways, you lose coverage quickly. So Even if I wanted to drop $499 for a phone, I would never sign a contract with Cingular.
So a quick wrap up.
On the plus side...
Again I have not been given one of these to test nor have I been paid by anyone to give this review. I recieved my information from other websites, like Apple.com and Cingular.com. Also information was provided by Cingular users who phones do not work at my parents house or other places in Wisconsin.
The iPhone has been rumored in the works for the last year. It basically is the morphing of a video iPod and a cell phone. For $499 + a 2 year Cingular wireless contract you can get a 4gb version. For $599 you can up that to 8gb. The phone also has some other useful things like a large touch screen, Bluetooth, WiFi, a 2 mega pixel camera and other applications like Google Maps, Safari, and iTunes (of course) with CoverFlow. Jobs said the phone will ship in June if you live in the US.
Now lets break this down a bit.
First, it is not a smart phone. There does not seem to be SDKs to support third party development. For example, where I work we do a lot of business applications that run on pocket pcs, this includes devices that have phones. By not allowing for third party development I believe the business world will not adopt this phone. So that only leaves consumers as buyers. I realize there are many people out there ready to waste money on this product but most consumers will find cheaper alternatives that offers similar options. I personally don't want or need a smart phone, so this is not the deal breaker for me.
The deal breaker for me is the iPhone ties you to Cingular wireless. Where I live Cingular provides terrible coverage. Sure Milwaukee is in there plan, and has good quality, but If I want to visit my parents, I might as well leave my phone at home. In fact you venture to far from our interstate highways, you lose coverage quickly. So Even if I wanted to drop $499 for a phone, I would never sign a contract with Cingular.
So a quick wrap up.
On the plus side...
- the phone looks cool
- has a new interface
- nice set of applications
- Cingular
- Cost
- No third party development
- Small amount of memory
Again I have not been given one of these to test nor have I been paid by anyone to give this review. I recieved my information from other websites, like Apple.com and Cingular.com. Also information was provided by Cingular users who phones do not work at my parents house or other places in Wisconsin.
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