Final Decision!

My decision on Mac vs. PC (after 2 years of using a MacBookPro and 2 weeks of using my new Dell XPS, and 15 years of Windows/PC in general): There is absolutely nothing significant I gain by paying $1000 extra for a Mac. Performance: Windows is superior. Stability: almost the same. UI: I like Win7 better. Programming: Was there a question at all? Ergonomic design: I like my Dell laptop more. Thickness/looks: MBP is better. CONCLUSION: Mac is good for carrying to a coffee shop and impressing people. For everything else there is PC!

#37-41

I refuse to accept that this blog is closed. I have plans for it but just can't get to work on them!

I'LL BE BACK!

#29-36

Wow, I can see I've been away for a LONG time, and to add to that, I'm going to be away for a couple of more weeks! It was a busy term with all sort of new things (and a lot of usual stuff) happening at professional and personal fronts, so I didn't get to do much writing, and not much testing and exploring with my MBP. I have been using it regularly and comparing it with PCs but not much of new things to report.

I'm going away for holidays to Australia so that means again not blogging until I'm back but I have some plans for new year which includes more OS and apps comparison and also talking about other operating systems (Linux and Android) and devices (tablets, phones, etc). So stay tued and you'll hear from me soon in new year.

For now, here is a super cool tool I found for Mac:
http://www.ommwriter.com
It's a "zen" tool for text editing ;-)

#27 and #28

I'm not really sure when I can get to do some work on the article management systems I so want to compare. They are particularly important to me as a researcher/scientist but this term is so busy with a lot of projects that I don't get to work on anything other than the school stuff.

Anyway, some friends sent me these links (reviews for Windows and Mac OSX) which I thought I'd share here:

21st century guide to platform trolling: Apple

21st century guide to platform trolling: Windows

I'LL BE BACK!

#25 and #26

There hasn't been much going on these days to report. I haven't had the chance to work on my latest project (paper/article management tools). I did try to run a couple of tools on VMWare Fusion though and had trouble. Web.alive is a web-based tool for virtual environments based on Unreal engine. It's not available for Mac and won't work well on VMWare. Also, I use Allegro for graphics programming in C and it doesn't work with VMWare (but it has Mac version).

On another note, I'm starting to hate OpenOffice. It certainly isn't 100% compatible with MS Office. Somethings like comments and change tracking won't work, paragraph settings and even bullets/numbers are annoying, and it doesn't open some Office files!

Anyway, that's it for now.

I'LL BE BACK!

#24

Still nothing new.

I'LL BE BACK!

#23

Start of classes didn't leave me with any time to finish my report.

I'LL BE BACK!