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dimaash
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Hi everyone.
I am not a MAC user (never used it at all), but i am planning to buy a laptop in a near future. I always wanted to try a MAC. My primary use will be some heavy programming and then everything else. And ofcourse i have some general questions and concepts that i dont' understand.
So one thing that i can't understand is why people buy Macs? (whether it is an iBook, PowerBook or something else) Is it because of OS X (And the rest of applications that come along)?
Or because of what's under the hood? (hardware)?
Are PowerBooks/iBooks/MacBookPros developer friendly?
Or is it intended more for Artists/Graphical Designers?
I have a PC computer, and i code in x86 assembly and C/C++. With MacBook Pro if I understand correctly i will be able to write x86 asm code just like I did for a PC?
As for the C/C++ code, how hard is it to port it from Mac to another architecture?
Does it make sense to dual boot Linux with OS X? Or Linux runs just as well on a PC hardware?
These are some questions that i have. I've never had any expereince with Mac, so some question may sound obvious to some ( if not stupid ). But i would appriciate if someone could clarify that for me.
Thankx.
I am not a MAC user (never used it at all), but i am planning to buy a laptop in a near future. I always wanted to try a MAC. My primary use will be some heavy programming and then everything else. And ofcourse i have some general questions and concepts that i dont' understand.
So one thing that i can't understand is why people buy Macs? (whether it is an iBook, PowerBook or something else) Is it because of OS X (And the rest of applications that come along)?
Or because of what's under the hood? (hardware)?
Are PowerBooks/iBooks/MacBookPros developer friendly?
Or is it intended more for Artists/Graphical Designers?
I have a PC computer, and i code in x86 assembly and C/C++. With MacBook Pro if I understand correctly i will be able to write x86 asm code just like I did for a PC?
As for the C/C++ code, how hard is it to port it from Mac to another architecture?
Does it make sense to dual boot Linux with OS X? Or Linux runs just as well on a PC hardware?
These are some questions that i have. I've never had any expereince with Mac, so some question may sound obvious to some ( if not stupid ). But i would appriciate if someone could clarify that for me.
Thankx.