Actually it's because of Virtualbox. I just bought a Macbook Pro a couple of weeks ago to do some iOS native app development and Virtualbox is one of the first things that I installed. I already have my Ubuntu VM and my Windows 7 VM up and running, ready for when I need to do some work that is OS specific.
Not to say that there is anything wrong with VMWare or Parallels, its just that I happen to like Virtualbox and have used it on Linux and Windows as well.
I was originally planning on getting a used machine but when I looked at the prices of new ones and compared prices, the difference was just too small to take the risks of non-warranty hardware.
Silly me. I didn't even know that Virtualbox existed for the Mac. I too like it a lot in the windows environment and use it to play with Chrome OS. I'll have to give the Mac version a look. Thanks.
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Actually it's because of Virtualbox. I just bought a Macbook Pro a couple of weeks ago to do some iOS native app development and Virtualbox is one of the first things that I installed. I already have my Ubuntu VM and my Windows 7 VM up and running, ready for when I need to do some work that is OS specific.
Not to say that there is anything wrong with VMWare or Parallels, its just that I happen to like Virtualbox and have used it on Linux and Windows as well.
I was originally planning on getting a used machine but when I looked at the prices of new ones and compared prices, the difference was just too small to take the risks of non-warranty hardware.
Silly me. I didn't even know that Virtualbox existed for the Mac. I too like it a lot in the windows environment and use it to play with Chrome OS. I'll have to give the Mac version a look. Thanks.