im graduating at the end of may and leaving for Georgia Tech (new Ramblin Wreck) in august, and i need a laptop for college. i have a nice windows desktop and a nice linux workstation already, those areas are covered solid. but ive been seeing/using OSX and im realy enjoying the new environment. OSX does UI realy well plus the added bonus of having loads of *nix apps. im realy sold on a new apple laptop. but ive got some issues i need to address before i spend my scarce money.
im kindve concerned about software developement under osx. im a computer scientist student and ive been using mostly vim and g++ (sometimes kdevelope) under linux and visual studios 6 under windows (although i recently recieved a free vs.net academic version). besides g++, what else is available for osx? codewarrior i believe. i doubt my vs.net copy would run emulate under anything. cost for a developement environment is a big concern, if it is cheap and i cant get it under an academic license, then i realy cant use it (legally anyway).
i know content creation (photoshop, imovie, etc) are great, but what about just basic boring office stuff. ive gotta have compatibility with ms office. but i cant afford office for apple (see above, broke student). i know microshaft offers academic copies of their product line to college students at nearly the cost of the media (univ of texas for example, but school participation necessary). any of you students out there have legal copies of office for mac?
existing users, any cavaets youve experienced since u bought your mac? laptop specific issues or whatever.
im kindve concerned about software developement under osx. im a computer scientist student and ive been using mostly vim and g++ (sometimes kdevelope) under linux and visual studios 6 under windows (although i recently recieved a free vs.net academic version). besides g++, what else is available for osx? codewarrior i believe. i doubt my vs.net copy would run emulate under anything. cost for a developement environment is a big concern, if it is cheap and i cant get it under an academic license, then i realy cant use it (legally anyway).
i know content creation (photoshop, imovie, etc) are great, but what about just basic boring office stuff. ive gotta have compatibility with ms office. but i cant afford office for apple (see above, broke student). i know microshaft offers academic copies of their product line to college students at nearly the cost of the media (univ of texas for example, but school participation necessary). any of you students out there have legal copies of office for mac?
existing users, any cavaets youve experienced since u bought your mac? laptop specific issues or whatever.
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