[sword-devel] Mac (was Locale and text retrieval code)

[DM Smith]

On Feb 1, 2009, at 7:13 PM, David Trotz wrote:

>
>> Kahunapule Michael Johnson wrote:
>>> Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>>>> ...  I need a new laptop and considering buying a Mac! :)
>>>
>>> Good choice. My MacBook is the best notebook computer I have ever  
>>> used. You should definitely seriously consider a new MacBook or  
>>> MacBook Pro. You can run Parallels on it and run Windows and Linux  
>>> in virtual machines, as well as running the native OS X. That  
>>> makes it a GREAT machine for cross-platform programming.
>>
>> _Totally_ agree. The new MBs & MBPs are rad. I've got Leopard,  
>> Win7, & Ubuntu HH on mine via boot camp & parallels. The MBPs with  
>> both integrated & dedicated graphics cards should be really nice if  
>> Snow Leopard can use OpenCL to utilize the second GPU as a GPGPU.  
>> And the multi-touch trackpad offers quite an experience, even for  
>> simple web browsing.
>>
>>
> I too agree, go Mac it is one of the most versatile platforms for  
> development these days. I have a MacBook Pro 17", its 2 years old  
> and I still love it!

Ditto.

I'd skip boot camp and just use parallels to run windows.