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windows applications mac can't do?
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If you need to run Windows apps and there is no OS X version, look at the virtual machine options: VMware, Parallels, or VirtualBox.
I agree with this. when i moved over to mac i just used osx as it was and as things pop up I found alternatives.
After you found alternatives, can you do half task on mac and half on windows? I am worried about this. Install VMWARE really cost resource.
I think the poster meant he found OSX apps the could do the same or similar things as windows counterparts. I did the same thing.
Then use Bootcamp. It's free and comes with every mac. It allows you dedicate some of your drive space to running Windows.
For me, personally? There's nothing like TortoiseSVN or Visual Studio. Most nondescript apps have an OS X equivalent though -- with the exception of GarageBand, which has nothing like it on Windows.
Why would you want them on a Mac anyway? Don't you need Windows to run those VS creations in the first place? Your IDE on Mac becomes Xcode. Which does both SVN and Git natively.
Only if you target Windows. If you target Web then the results work in anything with a browser.
That's why I never supported Visual Studio at all, this suite was meant to work only on Windows, I moved to Java (Netbeans, Eclipse) and QT C++ which runs on MAC/Windows/Linux and couldn't be happier with them.
Don't want this to turn into a religious war but... I try to go with whatever my current platform offers natively. It runs better, and helps me NOT be exposed to another attack vector.
I don't know if this applies to other people as well, but I've come to regard Java the same way I do Flash - just steer clear of it if possible.
Of course, that's just my opinion - I'm sure that there are tons of other people that enjoy all the benefits!
If you don't use Applets then there's no problem using Java, every time a security issue corcerning Java comes up the ignorant journalists blame Java, it's not Java! it's Applets the ones to blame (Applets are only part of Java technology), I use J2EE for web development and it's fine, fast and secure, Applets are obsolete technology that came with Java at the beginning and nowdays there's no reason for developers to use them not to mention the security issues that come and go from time to time, Flash is no longer needed to make rich animations web pages neither playing videos, that's what HTML5 is for. If you want to develop with native tools on a specific OS then it's fine, in my case I need to develop on cross-platform environments.
Visual studio is a big problem. If you company use it, then you can't use it on Mac without windows.
For me personally, it would be...
* Most of the CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM/Simulation software on the market. This includes SolidWorks, SolidEdge, CATIA (although it has a unix server component), Creo Elements/Pro, PowerShape/PowerMill/etc, Mathcad...
* The "real" Office versions Office for Mac is of course far superior to iWork, but still doesn't hold a candle to Office 2013 or even 2010. Most of the Excel documents used by the finance sector would make Excel 2011 crash.
* Most of the CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM/Simulation software on the market. This includes SolidWorks, SolidEdge, CATIA (although it has a unix server component), Creo Elements/Pro, PowerShape/PowerMill/etc, Mathcad...
* The "real" Office versions Office for Mac is of course far superior to iWork, but still doesn't hold a candle to Office 2013 or even 2010. Most of the Excel documents used by the finance sector would make Excel 2011 crash.
My girlfriend asked me how to use VMware Fusion the other day, so she could use MS Paint.MS paint! omg I miss it
Nevermind she has Photoshop installed on her mac too!
But Visual Studio is most betterest
As a web developer myself... that's also what HTML (5 or earlier) is for
It's completely platform agnostic and does not have any dependency on the underlying system.As for applets ... I do have a technical background, and I am a developer currently (not involved in Java at all though), and I don't know the difference. I can guarantee you that neither do 99% of your target audience
I just started using 2013 yesterday. I do like it, of course I liked 2012 as well.
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I tried both parallels and bootcamp. I like running windows in bootcamp better.