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March 5, 2008
Dude(tte), You're Gettin' a Dell Mac...
It turned out to not be much of a surprise, given that we'd discussed it in advance, but Dawnise's 20" iMac (MA877LL) arrived a few minutes ago.
After looking a bunch, talking to a friend at Apple, and finding a price several hundred dollars less than anyone else (including free ground shipping and lacking in sales tax) I placed the order last week, not telling Dawnise that I'd pulled the trigger.
Between her being sick, and not generally getting excited about technology, it's still in the box, and will probably stay there for a couple hours, while I finish work and she finishes the game she's playing and cleans off her desk a bit...
After much discussion and internal debate, I decided that the existence of "user friendly virtualization" (Parallels and VMWare Fusion) were the killer feature that made the Mac preferable to putting Linux on her desk.
Before all you Mac-heads get up in arms and start on about anything - her needs are pretty simple, and most of her daily-use applications run just as well on Linux than they do on Windows and Mac.
It was the fact that running the handful of Windows apps she needs under virtualization on the Mac is easier than running them under virtualization on Linux that dictated the choice.
My plan is that I'll help her physically connect things (which means crawling under the desk to plug in power and network), and she'll "take it from there."
I have additional RAM on order, which should arrive Friday, and we'll evaluate VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop to see which one works better for her. And then we'll decide if we BootCamp the machine as well.
Hopefully, she'll blog about the experience.
Posted by dberger at March 5, 2008 3:57 PM