Switcher's worries.

[mh10190]

I have been drooling over macs for a while now
ive been on the same HP for more than a year
And am hating it
I am 100% pro Apple and Mac
I recently converted my sister over to an iBook
And she loves it

The thing is i cant get a new computer now
I have all my money tied up in a number of differnt things
I really could if i wanted to
But if i wait just a little longer it will be easier

the thing is
i did all my research and i know exactly all the software i need to get
and im just waiting out an Intel mac,

my problem is the following
i want to get into programming
and not just on a hobbist level

and i am worried that a mac will limit me
Windows is the standard for software development
and Linux is the standard for servers
Mac is just the standard for Creative professionals

will using a mac stop me from developing applications for windows
and running servers using linux

i will be doing application development
web/email/file/etc serving

i will be using the mac for my personal stuff
and i want to do these other things as well
and i think having serprate computers for it will defeat the purpose

so what can i do

i think i can use VNC for the linux servers
but for developing on Windows
what can i do

 

[caribiner23]

Ummm....

welcome back?

 

[yogi]

Please use what the English language describes as punctuation. Your post is very hard to read/understand .

For your dilemma: If you need a testing environment for your software, get one. If your programming FOR windows, get windows. You can code on your mac, but you'd have to port the code to the windows computer to compile and run it.

You see, you should use the computer you NEED. I need to do a lot of digital management, Videos, Photos etc. And I will be using CAD during my architecture studies in 2 years.
So a Mac makes sense.

If you are a developer with x86 needs, get x86. Even if the Intelmacs come out in january, who knows how close that will be to x86? Maybe it's intel, but maybe the architecture is totally new and different from Pentium?

So get what you need, and you'll be happy. And get it now, waiting will get you nowhere.

 

[lil]

A good coder will seperate the interface from the program itself.

That's the whole Model, Controller, View paradigm you will become familiar with over time as you develop stuff, even if it is using Cocoa - someone else should be able to come along, see the code/classes you have developed and easily port over that and then build the interface to it.

The main difference is that it is likely you will use Objective C, meaning someone on another platform would need to translate it to C++ or similar.

Multi-platform support is not as easy as it at first appears :flower:

As for Windows development, well - a Windows box unless your happy to sit around for Virtual PC.

As you get more au fait with matters you will soon see that in fact, Cocoa is an incredibly powerful API, which as it stands isn't paralelled. So much for just being an OS for namby pamby creatives pros :flower: - me being one of those, maybe minus the pro bit!

Vicky

 

[caribiner23]

Folks, if you read the thread I linked to, mh10190 seems to post the same questions over and over, only each time his story changes (either he has a PowerBook, an iBook, or is wondering about buying one).

Just a caveat before you spend a lot of time working on answers to this poster's questions. He just seems to be trolling for attention.

I'm not trying to be a wiseguy, but I noticed you posted a lot of the same questions before:

http://forums.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21557

In this thread, you said you have a PowerBook:

http://forums.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20542

In this thread, you said you have an iBook:

http://forums.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23105

In this thread, you claim to have experience with iWork '05:

http://forums.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=137877#post137877

Of course we're here to help, but I'm curious as to what's really going on.