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1a. Apple switched to a totally free OS model a few versions ago. Before that it was cheap ($20).
2. Yes
3. There used to be a way (Google: "Hackintosh") - not sure if it's still possible.
4. I use the free VNC Server on my iMac. Works fine from a client on my iPad.
Other stuff:
XCode is Apple's development tool for both OS X and iOS apps. Also free.
You can dual boot to Windows (Apple's utility for partitioning and boot switching is called BootCamp and is standard in OS X).
Alternately you can use VMware Fusion, VirtualBox or Parallels to run Windows or Linux in a virtual machine.
Despite the reputation of Apple fanbois lining up to buy new hardware every time Apple hiccups the reality is that Mac hardware is very VERY solid and most people use them for a VERY long time relative to typical Wintel PC's. My 2009 iMac still runs great - I expect to continue to use it for at least another 5 years.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Yes to all. Sorta
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Whenever I read something about a Mac Mini I keep thinking of tiny hamburgers.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Any additional information is appreciated.
1.To get beyond basic Xcode development, a lot of screen space is extremely useful (could even be considered necessary). Cost out at least one 27" monitor or dual 21+" monitors and the Apple interface cables. The monitors do not need to be from Apple.
2. To do the Time Machine backups you will need at least a Terabyte USB drive.
Clever philosophy goes here.
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I've seen some people suggest using Azure VMs while doing MS cert training, but I haven't seen many. Nor have I seen any after-action reports on how it went.
I'm thinking of getting my MSCE cert (tests 70-410 to 70-414, but I'll probably sub the SQL Server stuff for the 412 test), and use Azure and set up virtual machines for hands-on training.
Have any of you done that? Good idea? Bad?
It doesn't help that the Azure portal interface is not the user-friendliest of things. I wish they had a push-button for "set up a lab for the MCSE tests". 
(I've got an MSDN subscription that theoretically includes being able to do that sort of thing with no out-of-pocket.)
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Don't know about the other aspects of Azure for training but Azure SQL Server (the one you pay for) is totally different from "ground-based" SQL servers.
They don't tell you this but you do not work with your own server, but rather a virtual server-within-a-server. None of the stuff you normally do using the SQL tools works. Creating a table, creating stored procedures... in fact nothing you learned for ground-based SQL works the same way. For example, all tables must have a clustered index in Azure SQL Server.
Obviously I exaggerated a bit - transact-sql statements work but generally Azure is its own incompatible environment.
You can't even migrate data easily.
So if you want to learn SQL for a ground-based service then do not use Azure!!!
Hope this helps,
Murray
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Thanks.
I haven't looked too deeply into yet, but the way I understand it is I'd set up a VM and load [whatever] as if it was sitting in a VM on my desk.
So, not the Azure SQL...I hope. Just regular one from my MSDN ISOs. (Likewise all the other servers & software)
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That's a great idea, especially since you've already bought time through your MSDN subscription.
That's how I pay for the SQL server and web sites. They work OK once you get used to them.
Please keep posting if you decide to proceed. I'd love to know whether the Azure VM's are "just like the ones in your office" or if they have some funky issues like Azure SQL does.
Murray
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One head hunter has me taking IKM test... which stands for International Knowledge Measurement.
I think the testing is a bit off but so far I've done pretty well. I guess they are goina use those profiles to fit me into a job. I dunno if they do technical interviews when they place you, or if they just use this testing.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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Head hunters usually test if you don't have a lot of experience in a particular skill set or technology. Not all recruiters test. Be careful with which recruiters you use to help you. Some can actually hurt your chance at landing a good job.
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My international knowledge:
Merica is international.
Canadia is Merica's Hat.
South Merica is over there, somewhere.
Oz is upside down.
NZ is full of sheep.
India is full.
China is fuller.
Thailand is full of pretty girls. And some guys that look like pretty girls.
Africa is hot. And dry.
What else do you need to know.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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But, as the 10th Doctor once saind, "only Britain is Great" 
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I use 1TBS
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What about Great Bulgaria?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Isn't that Great Uncle Bulgaria?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I deoontestualized the sentence of course - in that case He was correcting a character who referred as Great Britain, Great France and Great Germany (or another, I don't remember if it was actually Germany) and the Doctor replied "no no, they're just France and Germany... only Britain is Great".
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I use 1TBS
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The Antilles are Greater.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Africa is hot. And dry.
Only in Winter. Well, in my side of Africa.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Which side of Africa is yours? The top side?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The very bottom bit.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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If you do well on the test you'll be rounded up with the others and placed in a special location for "rehabilitation". One can never be too careful.
On the other hand, if you appear clueless, you'll be tracked to senior management.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Bought a sound bar to go with the TV this morning - got fed up with the tinny sound, and saw a LG in my local supermarket. Since the TV is LG, and has an opto-audio out, I thought "That'll do!".
And then spent 1/2 hour to 3/4 hour trying to work out how to make it work....I even RTFM...before abandoning it as more difficult than I expected. 10 minutes later and I had a "lightbulb moment". Sure enough, the one, solitary AAA battery that powers the remote control is covered in shrink wrap plastic... 
I can't even cope with a damn battery anymore! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well, I can't say that I haven't done that myself. 
Then there was the time the remote felt like it had a battery in it, but it was just a weighted orange/purple/green plastic thingy. I still have it somewhere, I just need to find it and upload a picture of it.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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While very infuriating, I find these kind of situations very amusing.
Same thing happened when the battery on my guitar ran out.
Something was off with the sound - my first thought was: "Change the strings."
Ok, done still sounds bad.
Then I was playing with the settings on my multi-effect and amplifier for almost an hour.
Changing distortions, setting up the equalizer - anything I could think of.
The last thing I thought of were the two AA batteries that are used to power the active pickups on the guitar.
In the end the splitting headache was Occam's razor slicing my brain as it was trying to comprehend it's own stupidity. Such a simple thing, yet last one I thought of. 
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I'm a bass player and my first experience of Active electronics was pretty much the same. Apart from the fact that the battery compartment was wired backwards took me ages to figure out (I'm an EE by profession)... never trust 'em!
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