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I was at the Northern Virginia Software Symposium this weekend. Holy crap was it awesome. If Groovy can deliver on the things that were hinted at over the weekend... wow. But that's not what this post is about. This post it about a simple observation that I made while at the conference.
Every single presenter that I went to (with the possible exception of one that I forgot to check) used a Mac. And they did it REALLY WELL. As in "I'm going to give this full-fledged demonstration complete with code examples and slides and running the demo applications, and when I am done you will be able to count the number of times that I used the mouse on one hand." (Most of them were also running XP in a program that I believe was called Parallels, but that's a digression from this post). Combined that with the fact that it's now running on a Unix kernel, and there are applications like Quicksilver out there, and I am seriously considering going over to the Apple side. [Though almost certainly not completely...]
So I'm interested in learning more from those of you who have them, especially those of you who do development work on them, how you like them, what are the things you love about them, what are the things you hate (or would prefer were different)? What things do you wish they had?
And what things would you say that I, as a relative Mac newbie, should keep in mind when considering the purchase of one? Could I get away with something used, or is that just crazy talk? I've got about 22 years of experience (of various levels and flavors) with computers (and those of you who know my age and think I am pulling your leg, I can provide proof, at least anecdotally ^_^) but precious little of that involves Apple products, and even less of that involves modern Apple products.
Thoughts? Recommendations? I'll probably follow this up with a more specific-questions post once I think up some more specific questions ~grin~
Every single presenter that I went to (with the possible exception of one that I forgot to check) used a Mac. And they did it REALLY WELL. As in "I'm going to give this full-fledged demonstration complete with code examples and slides and running the demo applications, and when I am done you will be able to count the number of times that I used the mouse on one hand." (Most of them were also running XP in a program that I believe was called Parallels, but that's a digression from this post). Combined that with the fact that it's now running on a Unix kernel, and there are applications like Quicksilver out there, and I am seriously considering going over to the Apple side. [Though almost certainly not completely...]
So I'm interested in learning more from those of you who have them, especially those of you who do development work on them, how you like them, what are the things you love about them, what are the things you hate (or would prefer were different)? What things do you wish they had?
And what things would you say that I, as a relative Mac newbie, should keep in mind when considering the purchase of one? Could I get away with something used, or is that just crazy talk? I've got about 22 years of experience (of various levels and flavors) with computers (and those of you who know my age and think I am pulling your leg, I can provide proof, at least anecdotally ^_^) but precious little of that involves Apple products, and even less of that involves modern Apple products.
Thoughts? Recommendations? I'll probably follow this up with a more specific-questions post once I think up some more specific questions ~grin~
