So, second day with my MacBook and I’ve started to look at application transparency between Mac and Windows.
On a positive note, I managed to get DropBox working (easily) and MindManager for Mac – all my mind maps are directly compatible. I didn’t expect I would have a problem but it’s good to see compatibilty sensibly implemented.
For major Office documents, I’m looking at OpenOffice or MS Office for Mac (however I don’t like the idea of paying for the same product on multiple platforms.
If I can get consistency in my standard data formats, then I can see me being more confident about using cloud applications to store data. That’s a good thing as I’m trialling a number of products and would want to see the platform become irrelevant as long as the applications are good. The only issue with that is having a continual reliance on an Internet connection; but that’s achievable anyway.
So far, products I’ve got happily working cross-platform;
- DropBox
- NetNewsWire/FeedDemon
- MindManager
- TweetDeck
- Exchange Email
Next challenges will be the Office installation, address and calendar (and decent synchronisation) and my favourite challenge, P2V’ing my “work” laptop (i.e. a machine I have to use to access a corporate network I use). If I can virtualise that machine and transport it around, I may be able to bin my Windows laptop entirely.
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