Hey everyone, know this fall I plan to take computer engineering in college, My main problem though is I do not own a laptop, And am thinking of investing in a mac book, before you all disown me from this site! I just want to say I want to make iphone apps and to get the sdk I must own mac, I know it is possible to install it on a pc but its just to much effort for such an os, So I was thinking I'd parrelle windows on the mac and also boot up linux! I told my friend this idea(who is already in engineering) and he laughed, lol, thought he agreed on the Iphone app development, So is this a good move? All advice is welcome! Thank you,
yeah most versions of OSX on macs come with bootcamp, don't they? if you can't find built in software means to run two OSes on a hard drive, you can always partition the hard drive and install the separate the OSes respectively, old skool
you can also use vmware .... I have it on my Macbook, you just boot with osx, and then run vmware; in "unity" mode; that will merge your windows and programs w/ your mac desktop; so yo can use both at the same time as it was the same opertaing system It works flawless, i've been worink w/ that for the las year and 1/2........ the lisence for mac , vmware it's like 30 euros...... I personally prefer this over dual-boot...... It's called vmware "fusion" check at "Unity view" http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/features.html
The vmware fuision sounds like a great idea! Thank you all very much, lol now I won't feel like a complete noob in tech class! Lol
get the makbook w/ at least 2 GB RAM; also you can change the sticks after y buy it; to go 4GB RAM...... Keep in mind that y will be needing RAM for all of this.. Although I run 2 GB RAM on my MacBook (Core2Duo, the white one, old model) and I have no probs, there are sometimes that If a I have vmware on, bunch of mac apps running and Eclipse for Java development, etc ....... the systems gets much less responsive...... I would say y need to buy the macbook w/ 4 GB RAM; in apple web site that is going to go expensive as hell; but remember that y can allways buy the sticks over Internet much cheaper and replace them manually.........