I run Photoshop and Flash etc through VMware on my iMac and I have no issues at all - about two months running without problems. Just my two cents.
[QUOTE=fasterthanlight™;2345772]No, the system architecture won’t support it,
crucial has very good prices, considering,
and since you want to run windows, etc, you’re going to need 4GB[/QUOTE]
I just checked Crucial, since I might be getting a macbook pretty soon. Only about $100-110 for the 4bg ram upgrade. OWC had it for about $10 less. Both much lower than Apple’s memory upgrade. Moving up from 2 to 4gb with Apple is $180. Not to mention the fact that once you bought the Crucial memory you’d have 2 1gb sticks to re-sell elsewhere.
^^ Thanks Adam! 
Does Parallels Desktop 3.0 run about the same, or are there noticeable differences between the two?
I’m buying a MBP hopefully in August but am working on a new iMac at work. We use parallels but if you want to run photoshop in it anywhere NEAR usable and fluid you need 4GB ram. It is usable for site mockups but if your doing any really intense work in it like huge digital art pieces or designs then it’s a no no.
Macs are definately better for dev, before getting one at work (I used to use a PC at work anyway) I had never used one, took me about a solid day of work to get used to but after that it’s great. Although I still do crazy fingers when I want to copy something. So used to putting small finger on control and index finger on C, I do the same thing on macs… but having the command key just below C makes me end up with huge finger ache.
It is usable for site mockups but if your doing any really intense work in it like huge digital art pieces or designs then it’s a no no.
indeed, and thats where bootcamp steps up to the plate
Also, Esherido, if you’re browsing the apple refurb store with your eye on one particular item, buy it soon because those things go like … well… fast… things, and stuff.
Also make sure that you get the hard drive space you want. Replacing a hard drive on a MacBook Pro is not for the faint of heart. As far as refurbished, nearly every Apple product I’ve purchased has been refurbished, with great results. It seems like they get a little extra attention before being sent out than the new purchases do.
Yea but you can never account for what happened in the past that you can not see …
But, Warranties!! WOoo!!
Thanks for all the input guys. I’ll hopefully be buying soon. I can’t wait to get my hands on Coda. (BTW, which do you prefer, Textmate or Coda. Because after busting $2,500, I can’t exactly go wild with the IDE purchasing.
Try it out, it’s got a trial I believe. I personally haven’t used either though. The little site work I do ends up in Dreamweaver since it came with CS3.
I LOVE textmate way more than coda, I like some principles of Coda like having everything in one package but I think having everything separate is just as easy and nice. And with bundles textmate gets VERY powerful.
Both have their strengths, coda is more complete for client side web dev, but has a few annoying little quirks, textmate rules on the command line and really earns it’s keep with bundles. Get both of them, you wont be disappointed and will find real uses for both, if you want an all in one solution go for coda first tho.
Coda - lightweight ide
Textmate - editor (IMO)
Coda is how I make money in life.
There are little bits of awesome about Coda that most people don’t know about…
but either way they both have trial versions.
I enjoy Coda the most because all I do is remotely edit, so having access to the actual file heirarchy RIGHT next to my coding window is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo handy.
Built in terminal is the bee’s knees too.
I haven’t used it in a while, but I remember being annoyed by TextMate’s remote editing process.
Not to mention, Coda’s 30 day trial is based on time, so like, if you only use Coda 2 hours one day, it only counts the two hours you’ve used against the 30 days, I had my 30 day trial run out in just over two months.
For being just under twice the price of Textmate, Coda has several pluses over textmate (except for bundles) and I feel like the interface is nicer, and oriented towards clientside development, as was mentioned …
Most back end developers edit through vi with terminal…
I purchased it (Refurbished 15" MBP) this afternoon and it’s on the way! Now to find those old “Ok I got a Mac, what do I do?” threads.
Bootcamp is free, you need your own copy of XP though
^ I’m actually gonna go with VMware Fusion, though I’ll install Bootcamp if I have to.
