[Ruby] Mac for a Linux guy (off-topic)

[Cere Davis]

Alex,

I have one of the macbook pro dual cores that you're looking into buying.  I
can't stand the Fink method of managing unix packages on the mac because a
large fractionof the usefull utils that I need don't compile worth a damm,
so I run debian inside a parallels vm.  It's the best way to have your cake
and eat it too imo.


-cere

On 12/16/06, Alex Vollmer <alex.vollmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I love my penguins, but when it comes to laptops I can't help but envy all
> the Mac PowerBook users out there. Nobody seems to provide a better latop
> experience than Apple. So I'm finally giving in and joining The Apple
> Collective. The question is, how?
>
> Given the disproportionate amount of dudes that showed up with Macs to the
> last hacking night at Vivace, this seems like as good a place as any to
> get
> some opinions on what Mac to purchase for a developer. Sorry if this is
> too
> off-topic for this list. Please send your flames to /dev/null. ;-)
>
> I'm looking at the 15" MacBook Pro with 2.16 GHz processor. I'm planning
> on
> getting the stock 1GB memory and adding another 2GB later (I think I can
> do
> that, right?) I'm curious what folks think about the necessity of Apple
> Care
> and if the plain' ol vanilla Mac Books are good enough for a  "serious"
> dev
> box. Plus, if you can think of any "must-have" apps for a developer, I'd
> love to know what they are.
>
> TIA,
>
> Alex V.
>
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