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2006-01-11
Back into the Apple fold
I used to develop courseware for the Apple Lisa and Macintosh. Over the years, I moved into Unix and Windows programming, but I’ve kept an eye on the resurgent Unix-based Mac offerings. Yesterday, I placed an order for the newly announced MacBook Pro notebook computer. The MacBook Pro sports an Intel dual core processor and allows an upgrade to a 100GB SATA 7200 RPM hard drive. I plan on comparing TextMate + Rails + Mac to my current Eclipse + TortoiseSVN + Windows development system.
Wishlist for software I’d like to put on the new Mac:
- a nice image/vector graphics program, like a new Adobe Photoshop / Macromedia Fireworks, but running natively on Mac OS X with Intel
- a virtual PC system for the new Intel-based Mac. I assume Microsoft is working on a new version of their VirtualPC. VMWare should give them some competition.
- a native version of MindManager Pro 6, which is a pretty useful mind mapping tool.
- a nice subversion client like TortoiseSVN.
I’m looking forward to rejoining the Apple fold. Go Apple. (disclaimer: I’ve been an Apple shareholder :)
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