Many before me have made this step, finally I took it myself. The excuse to get me a Mac was building iPhone apps with Monotouch. My expectations were great and all were fully met. After battling a couple of blue screens and a lot of Windows updates I decided to pass my Dell to my son’s game addiction and move as much as possible to the Mac. I wanted to mix the (excellent) Mac mail, surf and other tools with the Windows only tool Visual Studio. Using Bootcamp to boot either OSX or Windows on Apple hardware was not good enough. VMware fusion runs any version of Windows (including 64 bit) almost seamless under OSX.
To give both OSX and Windows some air my Macbook has 8 Gb of Ram. 4 gigs is standard. VMware fusion works as promised. Windows runs like a charm; resuming (from sleep mode) is even faster than on a PC.
The only thing which needed some attention was Resharper which highly depends on specific keystrokes. The Mac keyboard is quite different, making all keys work required fiddling some settings in several places. I have an external Mac keyboard with a numeric keypad, a surprising minimalistic approach after all curved desktop hoggers with multi media extensions. It is a nice fast and relaxing typer.
The problem keys
Insert
There is no insert key on a Mac keyboard. VMware can map keys, a post on the VMware support forum describes how to map the Ins key, explicitly mentioning R# There is no need to do that for the external keyboard, the 0 on the numeric keypad works just like the . Type and you have your new class.
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In the default VMware key mappings
To give both OSX and Windows some air my Macbook has 8 Gb of Ram. 4 gigs is standard. VMware fusion works as promised. Windows runs like a charm; resuming (from sleep mode) is even faster than on a PC.
The only thing which needed some attention was Resharper which highly depends on specific keystrokes. The Mac keyboard is quite different, making all keys work required fiddling some settings in several places. I have an external Mac keyboard with a numeric keypad, a surprising minimalistic approach after all curved desktop hoggers with multi media extensions. It is a nice fast and relaxing typer.
The problem keys
Insert
There is no insert key on a Mac keyboard. VMware can map keys, a post on the VMware support forum describes how to map the Ins key, explicitly mentioning R# There is no need to do that for the external keyboard, the 0 on the numeric keypad works just like the . Type and you have your new class.
Ctrl-Click
In the default VMware key mappings
