Comments on: Random rant http://www.simonlin.ca/2006/08/10/random-rant/ A site by Simon Lin Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:59:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Simon Lin http://www.simonlin.ca/2006/08/10/random-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Simon Lin Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:38:31 +0000 #comment-8 <p>Yeah. I've been very happy with the MacBook. It's totally capable of my development tasks. Not to mention the awesome OSX. It's pretty much the best OS I've ever used. (Sorry, Ubuntu :-)</p> <p>As far as development goes, I've tried Eclipse (3.2), MySQL, Tomcat and Ruby on Rails. Everything works well except the Oracle problem. I'm sure it's eventually gonna be solved though.</p> Yeah. I’ve been very happy with the MacBook. It’s totally capable of my development tasks. Not to mention the awesome OSX. It’s pretty much the best OS I’ve ever used. (Sorry, Ubuntu :-)

As far as development goes, I’ve tried Eclipse (3.2), MySQL, Tomcat and Ruby on Rails. Everything works well except the Oracle problem. I’m sure it’s eventually gonna be solved though.

]]> By: Jamie McIlory http://www.simonlin.ca/2006/08/10/random-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Jamie McIlory Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:01:11 +0000 #comment-7 <p>I've been contemplating a switch from my current ThinkPad T42 (2gigs of RAM, 1.8ghz processor) to a MacBook. I do mostly Java development with the Eclipse based Rational Application Developer (using IBM's WebSphere Portal server...the beast of beastly enterprise software). </p> <p>Have you been happy with your MacBook so far (this blog content aside)? </p> I’ve been contemplating a switch from my current ThinkPad T42 (2gigs of RAM, 1.8ghz processor) to a MacBook. I do mostly Java development with the Eclipse based Rational Application Developer (using IBM’s WebSphere Portal server…the beast of beastly enterprise software).

Have you been happy with your MacBook so far (this blog content aside)?

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