Web Designer, Developer, Netbackup Engineer, Tech Geek

Okay, okay. You might be ask­ing, "Why? Why move to Mac?" There's really no rea­son for me to do this. I'm per­fectly happy with Win­dows 7 and my quad core desk­top. How­ever, I have this nifty Mac Book pro sit­ting around that I'd like to get more famil­iar and com­fort­able with. Cer­tainly, there is noth­ing that I need that my Win­dows box doesn't cur­rently provide.

I do a lot of web dev and design on my win­dows box, not so much my MBP, which is where it shines sup­pos­edly… Right? So I'm force-weening myself off the win­dows box for about thirty days, start­ing today. Every­thing I do on my win­dows 7 box today will now, for the next thirty days, be done on my Mac. I mean, it's really not such a huge tran­si­tion. I'm already com­fort­able, to a degree, wtih my mac­book pro. If I get in a real pinch, I've got win­dows 7 installed on boot camp… I sup­pose that's cheat­ing, but I need to have that installed because of work and the need to remote in when required.

Adobe CS4 is on both my win and mac sys­tems, so there's no loss there for graphic and web pro­duc­tiv­ity. How­ever, I'm excited to be div­ing deeper in Coda for Mac, ideal for hand coded site build­ing; Dreamweaver is awe­some and I'll always love it, but I didn't use but ten per­cent of the fea­tures in that pro­gram. Coda is lean and mean and I can't wait to get to the brass tacks with it on my upcom­ing projects. Every­thing else is straight forward.

Below are some of the pro­grams that I am using or plan to use to sup­ple­ment my switch for the next thirty days. Noth­ing here is shock­ing or unnat­ural to use. The tran­si­tion, I feel, will be pretty seem­less. How­ever, I'm choos­ing VMware fusion for my vir­tu­al­iza­tion needs, rather than vir­tu­al­box. Why? Well, VMware fusion allows me the oppor­tu­nity to run Mac OSX Server 10.6 and the soft­ware seems to run VMs much smoother than Vir­tu­al­box, in my opin­ion… Not sure why, but that's what I've observed up to this point.