This was an incredible combination! The hardware quality of Mac with the ubiquitous software support of Microsoft Windows. We bought all new MacBook Pros and bootcamped them into Windows 7 laptops. Again some integrations with a bad Bluetooth driver caused the unreliability.ĭuring this time the support for Bootcamp on Mac significantly improved. For example having the bluetooth on would prevent Microsoft Office from working. It wasn’t really Microsoft’s fault though, it was just pour quality video drivers from the laptop OEM that caused the lock ups. The problem was these laptops blue screened frequently, specifically when using multiple monitors. These laptops were about 1-1/2” thick and I jokingly referred to them as “20,000 btu heaters” as they put out quite the heat while running that cutting edge i7 processor. We ordered up the top fully loaded windows machine from a popular vendor and put them to use. I even bought a Windows Phone believing Microsoft could carve out some market share.Īt one point in my career my employer was looking for excellent laptops to use for developer workstations. I’ve had a Microsoft Windows operating system since Windows 3.11 and learned software development starting from classic VB4-VB6 through masm32 (Microsoft’s Macro Assembler) and into C# with. I’ve been a life long Microsoft disciple.
