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Hi Guys,
nice forum you have here. I run a small business and about half of my portfolio involves development of Windows applications (with Access and SQL Server) and development on microprocessor platforms. Since I absolutely love technology and really enjoy my iPad 1 and iPod Touch 4th gen, I decided to take the plunge and buy a Mac. (Not that I really need one, I already have a LeNovo notebook, Dell desktop and a couple of other older notebooks, but I've been looking at Macs for a while and took the plunge!)
I was after grunt rather than portability so I went for what I thought was a good compromise and bought a Mid-2011 iMac. Reason for the grunt is that I'd like to start using the Mac as a production machine. For this then I'd need to virtualize Windows and be able to run things reasonably comfortably. After reading some reviews, I decided to give VMWare Fusion 4 a run and have created an image of my LeNovo on the Mac. Initially, performance was terrible but after some tweaking (reducing color depth, disabling LeNovo apps, AV, etc.) it seems to be a lot more responsive. I've got 4GB RAM and have given 1.5GB to the VM and 2 of the 4 cores. In time I'll probably add another 8GB of RAM to the Mac.
Next consideration is running running MS Office (IN OS X). Not much choice these days, most people use it and the money saved buying another suite will be eaten up in the first few hours trying to learn it. I've downloaded MS Office and will install the trial once I've made a disk image of my Mac HD.
I'd like to ask for some advice and some opinions at this point. My questions are:
-Is it feasible to run a Mac as a semi-Windows production machine?
-Will it be easy to sync my data with my LeNovo notebook (I need to visit clients from time-to-time)?
-What is the correct way to make a full disk image of my Mac? (In Disk Utility, if I select "Macintosh HD" and then go to File->New-> I see that "Disk image from Macintosh HD" is disabled)
I'd really like to learn this platform and possibly start developing our apps for OS X and iOS as well, so hopefully I can find a good way forward.
Thanks for reading!
Cheers,
Checco
nice forum you have here. I run a small business and about half of my portfolio involves development of Windows applications (with Access and SQL Server) and development on microprocessor platforms. Since I absolutely love technology and really enjoy my iPad 1 and iPod Touch 4th gen, I decided to take the plunge and buy a Mac. (Not that I really need one, I already have a LeNovo notebook, Dell desktop and a couple of other older notebooks, but I've been looking at Macs for a while and took the plunge!)
I was after grunt rather than portability so I went for what I thought was a good compromise and bought a Mid-2011 iMac. Reason for the grunt is that I'd like to start using the Mac as a production machine. For this then I'd need to virtualize Windows and be able to run things reasonably comfortably. After reading some reviews, I decided to give VMWare Fusion 4 a run and have created an image of my LeNovo on the Mac. Initially, performance was terrible but after some tweaking (reducing color depth, disabling LeNovo apps, AV, etc.) it seems to be a lot more responsive. I've got 4GB RAM and have given 1.5GB to the VM and 2 of the 4 cores. In time I'll probably add another 8GB of RAM to the Mac.
Next consideration is running running MS Office (IN OS X). Not much choice these days, most people use it and the money saved buying another suite will be eaten up in the first few hours trying to learn it. I've downloaded MS Office and will install the trial once I've made a disk image of my Mac HD.
I'd like to ask for some advice and some opinions at this point. My questions are:
-Is it feasible to run a Mac as a semi-Windows production machine?
-Will it be easy to sync my data with my LeNovo notebook (I need to visit clients from time-to-time)?
-What is the correct way to make a full disk image of my Mac? (In Disk Utility, if I select "Macintosh HD" and then go to File->New-> I see that "Disk image from Macintosh HD" is disabled)
I'd really like to learn this platform and possibly start developing our apps for OS X and iOS as well, so hopefully I can find a good way forward.
Thanks for reading!
Cheers,
Checco