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    Macbook Pro 13" - Great Unix Developers Machine.

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Cuggull, Jul 5, 2009.

  1. Cuggull

    Cuggull Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well, my expensive massive desktop replacement PC recently died after only 16 months - and I was sick of lugging this monster around.

    I'm a software consultant - so I need to be able to run both MS .NET environments, and J2EE depending where I'm working.

    Having never really looked at the Mac OS X, before - I thought what the hell, after being thoroughly enthralled by the build quality and price of the new 13" pro. It was a nice contrast from the 7kg beast I was lugging about before.

    Well! What an eye opening revelation, seconds after opening my first bash shell and realizing the whole damn thing is sitting on top of Unix.

    No need for linux as I was intending. I setup bootcamp but haven't needed to use it yet - for now being able to use a VM - but it's nice to know it's there if need be.

    I'm completely recommending this to any Unix or Linux developers out there.
    The more I dig, the more I find various Mac OSX binary builds of my favorite Linux packages.

    My only minor complaint is I find Finder a little quirky in it's behavior, but no worse than half a dozen X windows file managers.

    Would love to hear where the best and most active sites are for Mac/Unix development as I'm a complete convert.


    Cheers,
     
    Cuggull, Jul 5, 2009
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  2. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    Macports is useful for installing some *nix development packages. FinkCommander is a graphical installer for some packages, but I believe it hasn't been updated in many years.

    The X11.app can also be found on the OS X installation disc, and compilers such as gcc are part of the Xcode Tools, which you can download for free from the Apple Developer's website. Mono will enable you to develop some .NET applications in the *nix environment of OS X, although I think it's easier just to use a Windows PC or virtual machine for that.
     
    Budding, Jul 5, 2009
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  3. Luke1708

    Luke1708 Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    congrats for the sale. i've myself been impressed by the cleanliness of things with this laptop of mine. everything seems just easy plus i get two environments. one for multimedia and one for programming. also this laptop is soo beautiful and portable.
     
    Luke1708, Jul 5, 2009
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  4. doh123

    doh123 Without ME its just AWESO

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    yep its awesome... and I love Xcode... took awhile to learn Applescript, but its nice too. Easy to build up nice interfaces while still leaving the bulk of your code standard and using X11 so its portable to other *nix systems
     
    doh123, Jul 6, 2009
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