Bob Ray [Visitor] in response to: Mac instead of PC for PHP/Web development?

I’m thinking of switching to the IMac 24 and
I found your comments very useful.

You might look into Eclipse and PhpEclipse.
That combo does everything you want once you
get it installed correctly (which can be
a royal pain since you have to get compatible
versions of all the components).

Personally, I don’t like the user interface
of PhpEclipse and, like you, use PhpED and
either QVCS or TortoiseSVN. QVCS, which I
love, isn’t available for the IMac either,
nor is there any Mac equivalent.

I’d probably use Bootcamp and PhpEd, since
things run a lot faster in Bootcamp than
Parallels. In fact, I might never boot OSx.


My biggest concern would be getting peripherals
to work like my Hawking parabolic
USB wireless antenna. In theory, the XP
drivers would work under Bootcamp. In
practice, who knows.


Bob - Full Post