Virtual Thought

I want to buy a laptop. Specifically, this is the laptop I’ve had my eye on for about three months now. I’m very close to getting it, and now I’m having second thoughts.

A friend of mine suggested I get a Mac. I like Macs… the UI is clean, they run BSD under the covers (schweet), and other goodness… but would I be able to code on it? This guy got a C# program running on his Mac, apparently. How many people out there are using Mono on their Macs? I’m too gadget impulsive, and most of the Mac research I read out there has the tone of a religious war. Also, God forbid, if I have to do consulting I need a Win32 box so I can run Visual Studio, not a Mac box running #Develop...

So. Anyone out there have experience running Mono under a Mac, specifically Mac OS X?

EDIT: Turns out that Sam Gentile has a post on this exact subject and a mysterious thing called “Rotor”. I may be in luck.

EDIT RETURNS: I’m an idiot who can’t do research. Scroll down to the Mac OS X download of the Mono framework version 1.0.

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