Macbook Pro for System|Network Administrator

[4kusnik]

Hi guys.

At the moment I use 14" Asus laptop for the following tasks:
- Internet browsing
- pdf files reading
- vmware workstation network emulating
- several applications for remote connection such as RDP, Telnet, SSH.
- other tools related to Windows administration

On my current laptop I feel that I need much more display space and 1366x768 resolution is extremely insufficient. If MBPR 13" with 2560х1600 will be released it would be great, BUT, will I be able to run all the Windows applications on Macbook Pro? (if yes, then how exactly it would be possible?)

I would like to move on macbook (macbook and not mac os) but Windows software availability (for system/network administration) is of great importance.

 

[4kusnik]

Is there anybody who successfully use Macbook in Windows System|Network administration field?

 

[RealEyes]

You can use BootCamp to install any Windows on your Mac. You might want that thunderbolt to ethernet cable adapter if you're going to plug into different networks.

 

[apparition47]

Running Windows programs won't be a problem in BootCamp or through a VM (via Parallels, Fusion).

We had a few MacBook Pros in our office for our work on BootCamp and we did RDP, SSH connections, serial connections through PuTTy, vSphere client just fine. A lot of our network monitoring programs we ran in VMs that are front-ended through a web interface so we could just open a browser to work. Worked just like any Windows laptop.

 

[0x000000]

Unless you run Windows in BootCamp and manually set the resolution to 2560, don't be mistaken about the 12" rMBP's screen estate: In osx it is in fact only the screen estate of a 1280x800 display!

You can switch the effective resolution to 1440, 1680 or 1920px and your screen may in fact still look better compared to a display that supports those resolutions natively; but performance may suffer (though not clear how noticable, if noticable at all) and it's clearly not "perfect".

 

[AppleMacFinder]

Is there anybody who successfully use Macbook in Windows System|Network administration field?

Possibly, the Virtual Machine will be a lot better choice.
You can switch from Mac to Windows and back with one simple gesture,
and it's CPU performance is only 5% slower (tested by myself on Parallels).

The only problem is that you have to buy a memory upgrade, because VM will eat half of your RAM.