Comments on: Taking the Plunge: Upgrading Dev Machines to Macs

By: How Axosoft Built 5 iPhone Apps in 30 Days « Ship Software OnTime!

How Axosoft Built 5 iPhone Apps in 30 Days « Ship Software OnTime! — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:07:12 +0000

[...] to ship software. Besides the standards of a good work environment, free snacks, drinks and state-of-the-art equipment, we also do something that’s a bit out of the ordinary: After every major release of our [...]

By: Johan Cyprich

Johan Cyprich — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:39:30 +0000

Are they the world’s fastest workstations for Windows according to a report from Apple, or a third party? Apple lied before in claiming their G5 computers were the world’s fastest (these ads were eventually banned in the UK).

By: Sergio

Sergio — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:53:19 +0000

I’m developer and you could improve your developer machines with a fast SATA hard disk ( Western Digital Raptor ( 10k, 300Gb )). I have one. It improves performance and worth.

By: devjargon

devjargon — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:52:40 +0000

You could always buy a cheap laptop and remote into your desktop. Thats a nice dev machine though :P

By: Dell’s $1,304 Premium over Mac Pro « Ship Software OnTime!

Dell’s $1,304 Premium over Mac Pro « Ship Software OnTime! — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:06:27 +0000

[...] be a non-issue and choosing a Mac would be the wiser choice. Taking my own advice, I just upgraded Axosoft Developer machines to Mac Pros, without doing any comparison [...]

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:47:21 +0000

Two years ago, I had a hard time at my company getting a Mac Mini for testing. Now they’re everywhere and more and more devs are switching platforms. I can’t even describe what a huge shift this is for Apple.

By: Hamid Shojaee

Hamid Shojaee — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:43:50 +0000

Antonio, an equally powerful Mac or PC would run Windows at the same speed. However, the Mac Pro is the fastest Mac or PC Workstation in the world right now.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:02:37 +0000

Hi! I have a question.
If we have a PC and a Mac equally powerful, Is Windows still running faster on the Mac?

By: Hamid Shojaee

Hamid Shojaee — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:22:06 +0000

Dan, great idea about the 1 week away.

Our developers all have unique ideas on how to setup their Mac Pros, so we’re getting different setups. I’ll have to report back as to what becomes the standard (Parallels/Boot Camp/Fusion/MS’s new VM Solution). Stay tuned.

By: Dan Downs

Dan Downs — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:29:09 +0000

New virtual machines under vmware fusion are contained in a single “file”, so for those 1 week a year traveling just have a macbook available and copy over the file, when done copy it back and remove it from the macbook.

I switched last November to doing all my development on a mac with vmware fusion. I was already using vmware workstation on my notebook so the switch was really easy.