I keep watching this LifeHacker post (click the ‘read more’ link below). I watch it and I keep asking myself as a web designer/developer “Who wouldn’t want that? Sweet Jiminy Christmas!”. What is it? The new Macs have the ability to run an application called Parallels with a new feature called ‘Coherence’. This allows you to run Windows apps and Mac apps side-by-side.
This would make my life soooo much easier for testing. Case in point: testing sites in different browsers. While at work I have to roll my fat butt over to my Mac and test my work, and/or fire up VNC or X11 forward a Linux desktop to my Windows workstation. Couple that with IE not being completely stand alone and having to install the stupid Microsoft VPC to run multiple vesrions of Internet Explorer (5x – 7) and you can see what kind of a pain the whole thing is.
The only reason buying a Mac right now isn’t in my immediate future? Adobe products have been written to run natively under the Mactel platform.
Thanks for listening.
Geek out.