Raju: Hey! I've been developing on my 17" MacBook Pro for exactly a year now and I've got no complaints other than that sometimes I get eye fatigue if I work for extended periods of time on the 17" monitor, but then I just hook it up to my external monitor. Productivity wise I adore the Mac and the OS X Leopard. Previously I had been working on PC's using Windows XP and didn't really have all that much faith in Apple and their products, but once I tried the MB Pro and OS X I was immedeately hooked! And when I could run Windows on Parallels inside OS X for those apps that required this all my problems were solved and I can honestly say that my work experience has improved a lot. Hope this helps - and btw. I'm not a Apple "fanatic" :) Chris
innernode: Thanks for the response. I too was thinking of the 17" Pro, though I have to admit, plunking down $3000 for a laptop hurts a bit. Not to say I would not do it, but it just so happened that a friend of mine picked up the 13" Mac Book a few weeks ago, and although he does not spend a lot of time at home moonlighting, he says he loves it, and it would work for development purposes. Needless to say I was a little apprehensive, and figured this would be a good time to post the question.
I fully intend to use an external monitor anytime I am at my desk, so it was not the screen size that worried me a lot, rather it was performance, and the nagging feeling that the Mac Book was not designed keeping developers in mind.
Though again, thanks for the review. Every day I get closer to owning a Mac, and moving full time (atleast while working at home) on it. Hopefully "closer" is not too far away...
