On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Manokaran K <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Am planning to go in for a new laptop. I have done some research and to me
> it seems the new MacBook Air (i5, 4GB, 13", 1.35Kgs, 128GB SSD) is a good
> buy!


Good choice. but Expensive if you buy in INDIA.


> Am going to use it for web development and am considering the following
> options:
>
> 1. Make it a dual boot OSX and Ubuntu system
>

OSX is a variant of Unix. you have all the tools you need for web dev. you
can use macports for installing any open source tools you need


> 2. Use VirtualBox to run Ubuntu (and maybe even Win7)
>
> Anyone here, who has gone through this, share their experience? Any specifc
> pitfall that I should be aware of?
>
> Virtualbox is good and it supports ubuntu in mac os x lion. i never found a
reason to use it.
mac os x with tools like MAMP or XAMPP, GIMP should be enough for web
development.


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