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Original Post: Why i am not trendy (no Mac OS X notebook)
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Today everybody seems to propagate java development on a Mac OS X notebook. Celebrities like James Gosling, a bunch of Apache Jakarta developers, Bill Venners and zillions of other developers are using it right now, and they all let us know that this is the way to go.
But they seem to forget (at least James should know it) that SUN doesnt promote this operating system on the tools side. Lets take the Sun Wireless Toolkit, probably the best Java tool Sun ever created. Its only available for WinXX and Linux/Unix and even if you can get around using it, its bad that you must live without it. Lets stay in the J2ME space, i could name a lot of J2ME SDKs of several phone vendors, which are somehow only avaiable on Windows platforms.
I assume that running IDEA doesnt result in major problems, but the performance could be a problem, if you dont have one of these ultra-expensive titanium notebooks. But lets go further. I am using a specialized management Software for IBM iSeries Server Systems (Surveyor/400), having a Siemens mobile phone datasuite for syncronizing, using DJ java decompiler some times and having for sure a lot more tools which are not available on Mac OS X or not in a adequate variety (think of UML tools).
If i wouldnt developing software, i really would buy that thing, but being quite dependant on many little tool vendors for software development for a million different areas and reasons, i really cant throw away windows at the moment. Even if the software "problem" wouldnt exist, the price in germany for a speedy Mac Notebook is extraordinary, which doesnt make the decission easier.
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