You may have read my previous post (I’ve become a Mac OS X Leopard fan - way better than Windows) and I’m happy to report that my iMac at work is still running smoothly. Seconds to start up, doesn’t slow down even running multiple applications.
It’s been so good that I got TWO more iMacs for home! …maybe this is becoming a problem
As I do a fair amount of .NET ASP development as well as php, I will need to install Windows on the iMac at some point and I’ll probably use the Parallels application to allow me to run both OS X and Windows at the same time. In fact the Bootcamp provided by Apple to run Windows was a bit of a letdown as I discovered I had to choose my OS at startup and needed to reboot to switch. Not good.
Now I’ve been using the iMac for a while, here are some of my recommended applications.
1. Dreamweaver …way quicker than on a PC and in my opinion still the best web development tool
2. CSSEdit …one of the best looking and featured CSS editors there is
3. iMovie and iDVD …it took me no time to use these apps to import movies from the camcorder and put them on DVD.
4. Remote Desktop Connection… The quickest way to connect to remote Windows machines
5. Skype … great on the Mac. Fully integrated with the inbuilt camera and microphone
The not so good…
OK, so I’ll admit it, there are a few things I don’t like:
1. Lack of a decent messenger client with ICQ. I’ve tried ICQ, PSI and others but nothing seems to be quite right and why doesn’t iChat support more transport protocols?
2. The ’squeeze’ buttons at the side of the mighty mouse are far too sensitive making all my windows visible without me intending it
ummm… that’s it.