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posted @ Tuesday, August 28, 2007 10:51 AM
I'm really starting to crack. I already have a Macbook Pro. "It's for music," I said. Music. Yeah, right. I used to play music, but that was before this little guy on the right showed up. He's not one to let you sit and play a nice pretty song on guitar. He's all rock and roll, and he's the lead singer. I've used my Macbook almost exclusively in Bootcamp mode doing .NET development and bringing it to client sites, etc. For music I now own or have owned 6 total iPods, although 2 were shuffles that I got for free, and shuffles don't really count anyway.
Then of course, they drop the iPhone on us. We ooh and ahh, understandably. Friends and relatives rush out to get one as soon as they are released. "Not me," I say, "I will wait until they work the kinks out in a 2nd revision, and come down in price!" (Note to self, Apple products never come down in price, they just add sexiness - not to mention fix their mistakes - in later revisions.) "I'm also under contract to T-Mobile through September," I mumble under my breath. Well, September is rolling in, and I'm finding lots of reasons to justify getting one of those shiny bad boys.
Refurbs, anyone?
And now, some of my .NET blogging heroes are showing off about how they run
Visual Studio on their Mac desktops! Hammet, of
MonoRail fame, just recently posted a
screenshot of his desktop. Please note there is nothing fancy about his desktop. EXCEPT THAT IT HAS VISUAL STUDIO RUNNING ON IT (possible via
VMWare Fusion and
Parallels)! I am convinced he posted this just to mess with my mind. Not that I didn't already know he was a
Mac guy, but the picture really hurt my feelings.
Then Scott Bellware posted one of his uncomfortably angry rants about Microsoft's "suckage" with
One Less Stupid, Piece of Microsoft Usability Negligence Crap in My Life. Scott certainly doesn't mince words, but the thing that really hit home for me was when he mentioned how he is realizing how much time he was wasting troubleshooting obscure and annoying issues with Microsoft OS's and software products. Having upgraded to Vista in the last few months, I've lost several days to some anoying issues with Visual Studio 2005, IIS 7, and even network and permissions issues. Not to mention, I was unable to use Quickbooks SDK (more on that soon!) without turning on User Account Control on Vista, which was something I immediately removed because it was so damned annoying. That could be a
whole post in itself.
Anyway, all this Mac talk has gotten me all hot and bothered, and thinking about the possibility of leaving the Windows world behind... some day... But for now, I just put together the Jeff Atwood "
LIttle Bang" PC, and I don't think I'm ready to use my Macbook Pro, with it's teeny 100GB hard drive, as my main computer yet, but I may just have to repartition and try VMWare Fusion rather than Bootcamp (the partitioning for which probably is why the hard drive seems teeny). The real question is - will it be able to run a Nortel VPN client on VMWare Fusion??
UPDATE:
Another one of my heroes flips.