Hi DBA, I have been using macbook pro for 2 months now and I feel it hang's less then a windows machine.. Regarding your Remote desktop connection not having full screen option..I would ask you to check in preferences in RDC applicaion..->Display --> Remote desktop size.. Textmate (in built ) editor is good..you can also download textwrangler which is free.. Cheers Amit http://askdba.org/weblog/ On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > I have a macbook pro. I am not all that impressed with it relative to the > high price. It is nice being able to work in unix directly. Windows is fine. > It is cheaper. Plus you can get vmware for free on windows to run your > databases in linux. There are no free versions of vmware or parallels > (though there may be another brand) for the macintosh. So that is another > $80. > > further the remote desktop tool from mac to PC does not give you a full > screen option. so if you need to remote PC to your work computer or another > one you get a small box only. Further the keys related to print screen are > different (its a bunch of keys and a nuissance to use across the remote pc > tool. it doesn't always seem to work). > > further most freeware software that runs on the pc does not run on mac. I > prefer to use textpad for my editing. Mac does not have a version. There is > jedit, but I don't like it as much. > > It is ok. But instead of spending $2000 on a macbook pro you can spend half > that and get a decent PC with less interface hassles. I actually run windows > on macbook through vmware so I can use software that does not run on a > macintosh. If you are going to run vmware with windows, you want to run it > from an external hard drive. > > I didn't realize all the hassles when I got a mac. I probably won't get > another one unless they radically cut the price. That being said... I almost > never have to reboot it. It almost never crashes even if I am running all > kinds of stuff on it. Plus the built in backup software(I backup to an > external drive) is trival to use and set up. > > One other annoying this, is that macintosh uses a highly adapted version of > unix. It is NOT well documented at all. Apple purposely does not document > alot about the macintosh that is not GUI related. For example, there is no > root user. This can be annoying to DBAs or SAs who are pretty technical and > we have to hunt all over the place to figure out how to do stuff. All the > books on macintosh tend to be how to click buttons. I can figure that out > myself, what is harder is how to figure out the change that apple made to > unix that they didn't document. >