.Net Developer Kickin it with my MacBook Pro

I've been using a Mac for almost a year now. Been using the 1st relase of the 15" MacBook Pro. What do I have to say about the experience? I love it!

I decided to get out of the windows world because of one thing. I wanted to have an OS that does all the stuff that I need to do for personal stuff such as picture maintenance, movie making, music production, etc... since the mac has iLife and GarageBand, I was sold.

Specs:
MacBook Pro Core Duo 2.16 Ghz
2 Gigs of RAM
100GB HDD

I was one of the people that purchased Parallels Desktop for $30 when it was still in Beta. Popped my XP CD, and been developing crazy apps on it.

XP on Parallels Specs:
XP Pro SP2
1.1GB of Ram
Coherence Mode
SQL Server 2005 Standard
Oracle 10g Standard
Visual Studio 2005 with Resharper

You may be asking "How do you like developing windows apps in Parallels?" It's kick ass! Definately separates my "work" with my "life" when it comes to systems. And parallels handles XP like nobody's business.







But then Windows Vista came along. I had Vista running in parallels for a little bit, but that damn OS is a resource HOG!!!

I have been avoiding BootCamp because I don't like rebooting to another OS just to do a specific task. But Vista is a pain and plus trying to be in the bleeding edge in .net development with all the 3.0 framework stuff that is coming, I had to install vista on bootcamp.



Vista on bootcamp was a painless install. I dont want to discuss how I installed it. Just google "Bootcamp Vista" and there are a lot of tutorials how to pimpafy it up.

Vista on Bootcamp Specs:
Vista Ultimate
SQL Server 2005 Std
VS.Net 2005 with Resharper


So if you are a .Net developer and wants a change, would I recomend this Mac stuff? HELL YES!!.

**UPDATE: I do feel dirty running windows on my mac. But gotta pay the bills.