Use Mac for day job?

[SIMMN]

Hey,

I just got a cheap usb2serial adaptor from ebay. Now I am thinking about replacing the windows 7 laptop with my Macbook pro with Mac OS x. As networking professional, the other only issue I can think of at this point is the replacement of Visio. I do not want to run virtual machine all the time...

So what you guys think? Any Mac visio alternatives(free ones especially)? Any other issues from your experience?

[Chris Deren]

I am a Mac user and in fact most technical meeting I get into these days majority of engineers use Macs, so obviously you are looking at the right direction.  I do use Vmware Fusion quite a bit for some apps, as to Visio replacement I have OmniGraffle which is not free, but I is only $99 for standard and $199 for pro versions:

http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraffle/features/

HTH,

Chris

[SIMMN]

Thanks, I will check the Graffle app.

One another application I use heavily is the MS One note. I guess you would say use evernotes on Mac. I guess I need sometime to transit my onenote habit to fit the evernote style...

For my curiosity, what application you have to run in vmware fusion? I use vmware on mac mainly for windows tax return application

[Chris Deren]

Yes, I use Evernote as well as Growly Notes which in  a way resembles One Note.  I use Windows for things I cannot do on Mac, such as run IP Communicator for customer testing, Cisco Agent Desktop, CTI OS client, whole bunch of other work related tools that are only compatible on Windows. 

HTH, please rate all useful posts!

Chris

[Karsten Iwen]

+1 for omniGraffle Pro, that software is great. As a terminal-program I use iTerm2: http://www.iterm2.com. For me, VMware is most often used for the VSphere client.

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[SIMMN]

Thanks alot for mentioning vSphere!!! I guess I will stuck with fusion with using vsphere on Mac...

I can leave with the terminal coming with Mac actually.

[Karsten Iwen]

I would suggest to look at iTerm again. The session management is quite powerful and each session can be logged automatically to a dedicated file so that you always can go back and look what you configured. And there are many more features not available in the build-in Terminal.

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[SIMMN]

Thanks but you mean iTerm2 right? You also sound like a iTerm sales guy Just kidding. I will check the app.

[Karsten Iwen]

Yes, I mean iTerm2. Sales-Guy? Ok, you can buy the software directly through me ... It's only slightly more expensive then the normal price which is free ...

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[Chris Deren]

+5 for Karsten for great suggestions.

HTH, please rate all useul posts!

Chris

[SIMMN]

Does anyone have the latest vsphere running? Just curious if Safari works with vsphere web client in v5.1.