[osflash] OT: mac book? or Dell?

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Hey,

I'm one of those lithium-lick , so i dunno if i'm allowed to answer  
(using macs since the beginning, and perhaps forever :) ). But i'll  
do it anyway :D :

I would say that the mac comes with Xcode, and the Dell PC doesn't...  
It's a really great programmation environment, that has really great  
features when used with mtasc. (for example it points you directly to  
the line of the class where you have a compilation error and things  
like that.

If you don't want to play with windows (but why the hell would you  
play when you can code :) ) Parallels is the best solution imho.
But if you buy the mac an plan to use parallels regulary, you'll need  
to add the windows license price to the price of your macbook... ;)

As said before, RAM is really important on a mac, especially if you  
want to use some rosetta (PPC emulator for intel macs) applications  
(like adobe softs, which are always only PPC-native).

The mac & mac os X is actually imho the most confortable solution for  
everyday computer working, apart if you are a server admin, when in  
this case you could really prefer linux.... (but there are mac linux  
distributions :p )   So as it is the only hardware that offers you  
the possibility to run so much different systems, it's surely the  
better solution.


Oh and if you buy a macBook, don't forget to take the 3-years  
appleCare, it's a real good choice if you plan to keep your mac for  
more than 1 year and if you use it often (i mean more than 1 hour per  
day...)


Cheers,
Thibaut