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In a perfect world? Visual Studio on OSX! Mainly because power management and the touchpad are so much better on OSX than Windows.

Can't you just run parallels, then?
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That solves the trackpad issues, but definitely not the battery issue since I now run an entire operating system just for Visual Studio.
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I didn't think you meant that the battery thing was an issue, but an advantage of OSX.
The touchpad thing has got to be a hardware thing, so maybe you could do with boot camp? ;)
Then you're down to strict hardware-sided advantages.
(although i think the power saving features in win 7 are pretty decent.
Maybe it isn't as much an OSX thing as it is a macbook thing...)

The touchpad thing has got to be a hardware thing, so maybe you could do with boot camp? ;)

Despite running on the same hardware, Windows support for these trackpads sucks (even with the Bootcamp drivers). Windows just doesn't fluidly support the type of gross multi-touch gestures used on the Mac.

(although i think the power saving features in win 7 are pretty decent.
Maybe it isn't as much an OSX thing as it is a macbook thing...)[/quote]
It's largely a question of closed hardware. Apple gets to optimize Mac OS performance for each individual hardware revision, whereas Windows 7 has to run on pretty much every hardware under the sun.

Ah ok. Completely forgot that multi touch feature, too.

[quote name='SuperVGA' timestamp='1348592971' post='4983645']
The touchpad thing has got to be a hardware thing, so maybe you could do with boot camp? ;)

Despite running on the same hardware, Windows support for these trackpads sucks (even with the Bootcamp drivers). Windows just doesn't fluidly support the type of gross multi-touch gestures used on the Mac.
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Right. The Macbook touchpads and drivers are sublime. Far and away better than anything available on a Windows laptop.

(although i think the power saving features in win 7 are pretty decent.
Maybe it isn't as much an OSX thing as it is a macbook thing...)[/quote]
It's largely a question of closed hardware. Apple gets to optimize Mac OS performance for each individual hardware revision, whereas Windows 7 has to run on pretty much every hardware under the sun.
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Yep. Hopefully with Microsoft putting out some hardware now they will be able to address this to some extent. OSX gets fantastic battery life for the performance offered.

I'm not a fan of the general use of OSX. Finder is complete rubbish for instance and the bundled calendar and address book are hilariously bad. Most of Apple's design sense seems to end at the hardware level.

I am currently using the Macbook Pro in bootcamp, and the battery life isn't nearly as good and the laptop gets much warmer than when running OSX. I also really miss the three finger drag which is far more usable than trying to double tap and drag windows.

I'm not a fan of the general use of OSX. Finder is complete rubbish for instance and the bundled calendar and address book are hilariously bad. Most of Apple's design sense seems to end at the hardware level.

Hah. Every time I boot my Windows box, I want to tear my hair out

Why can't it all be as fluid and simple as my Mac? Where, oh where, is column view? Why doesn't the desktop have multiple spaces? Why isn't fullscreen mode cleanly integrated? Why can't I horizontally resize the terminal window? Why does a clean install leave me without an ethernet driver? WHY OH WHY... OH MY GOD ITS JUST TOO AWFUL.

Yeah. So that happened.

Nowadays I spend 99+% of my time on Mac

windows, the visual IDEs are the best (though some of the others are pretty close nowadays)
one thing thats not anywhere close is XCode, theres so many thing bad with it to list.

Finder is complete rubbish[/quote]
yeah I know, I want a decent replacement but theres bugger all.
IOS is a decent OS, OSX is just badly designed & buggy (its slowly improving), the hardware is very nice though

Yeah, I agree with the finder bit, although i have a real hard time positioning the cursor very precisely
on a touchpad, and then using 3 fingers to move a window without first moving the cursor.
I guess this is a finder "problem", but I've often thought: what is the resolution of this image?
Clicked the image file and then no useful information shows.

Everytime i code on a nix machine though, I feel empowered when writing bash scripts. -Is there anything you can't do from within a bash script?

You know you can write bash scripts in OSX too? (and also windows if you install cygwin)

Personally, I've kind of gotten used to having to use whatever is thrown at me, because of requirements from employer, or platform or whatever.

I run wmware on my macbook pro, so I can run whatever system I need for what I need to do.
Main system is OSX since i mostly do apple development

At home, I run OSX and Windows side by side, and control them both through synergy so they feel like the same computer.
So I have a really hard time answering the question

I guess this is a finder "problem", but I've often thought: what is the resolution of this image?
Clicked the image file and then no useful information shows.[/quote]select it and choose 'get info' will show you the image size

[quote name='SuperVGA' timestamp='1348514085' post='4983322']
Everytime i code on a nix machine though, I feel empowered when writing bash scripts. -Is there anything you can't do from within a bash script?

You know you can write bash scripts in OSX too? (and also windows if you install cygwin)

Personally, I've kind of gotten used to having to use whatever is thrown at me, because of requirements from employer, or platform or whatever.

I run wmware on my macbook pro, so I can run whatever system I need for what I need to do.
Main system is OSX since i mostly do apple development

At home, I run OSX and Windows side by side, and control them both through synergy so they feel like the same computer.
So I have a really hard time answering the question
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Sure. -That counts for a unix machine as well, so I never meant to exclude OSX.
You must be more comfortable in developing on one OS than another, -even though they run on the same machine... Just pick one!
But it's nice to see that successful OS fusion setups exist. I rarely do it for very long before being annoyed with one of them.