Motorola and Mac
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:43 pm
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I now have almost enough laptops to make a new coffee table, and I will soon be adding a MacBook Pro to the pile. That does not, however, mean that I like having to drag around more than one at a time.
What are people's experiences and recommendations regarding using Windows on a MacBook Pro for Motorola programming? I know that a number of people have used the USB cable to program XTS5Ks without issue. I am thinking of adding an ExpressCard RS232 card to support Waris, etc.
My general impression is that using a real serial card and booting natively into Windows XP using Boot Camp should provide a perfectly solid platform to program most current generation products.
Does anyone have any thoughts or experiences with Parallels or VMWare? Is one going to be more stable than the other, or is programming from a virtual environment simply choosing to take up brick making as a new hobby?
Thanks in advance for any input.
I now have almost enough laptops to make a new coffee table, and I will soon be adding a MacBook Pro to the pile. That does not, however, mean that I like having to drag around more than one at a time.
What are people's experiences and recommendations regarding using Windows on a MacBook Pro for Motorola programming? I know that a number of people have used the USB cable to program XTS5Ks without issue. I am thinking of adding an ExpressCard RS232 card to support Waris, etc.
My general impression is that using a real serial card and booting natively into Windows XP using Boot Camp should provide a perfectly solid platform to program most current generation products.
Does anyone have any thoughts or experiences with Parallels or VMWare? Is one going to be more stable than the other, or is programming from a virtual environment simply choosing to take up brick making as a new hobby?
Thanks in advance for any input.