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JR we were discussing how strong Apple is with their line of notebooks. While not cheap they are in demand. As more and more applications become web based then the only operating system concerns will be can you hit the Internet with your computing device. This will help reduce the cost of claims handling for carrier IT departments.

Apple just upgraded their line of notebooks and I was in Louisiana friday scoping a couple of claims and went by for a look see. They are really nice, but I worked it from another angle to get this 17" Macbook Pro. I went to Bestbuy and picked up this one for 1800.00 regularly price at 2800.00 and this has to be the nicest notebook i have ever typed on. The prices are dropping due to the style change. I appreciate all of your comments.

Jud this browser issue is a new headache for developers. Even if today a web application works fine with all of the browsers today an updated one or more can release tomorrow that will not work fine.

Gale, I wasn't aware that it was an ongoing issue to continue to upgrade the pages after the browser was updated. 
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As far as shopping for a Mac goes, I bought mine online at BH Photo and my Ram upgrade at NewEgg.  You can get even steeper discounts online.
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A fellow by the name of Mike Dohm who owns ExactTrainer does all of his adjusting applications with a Mac.  He has been at it longer than I have and is a real whiz with that thing.  You ought to seek him out for more expertise/experience with that machine.  He showed me a bunch of things about his Mac that I'm still trying to replicate with mine.

Thanks Jud

Because of the number of vendors that use a web page/dashboard to upload claims information and the situation we encountered working in South Louisiana on Gustav and Ike claims, we are considering a purpose built tower case. It will run 8 gigs of RAM, XP Professional 64 bit and be connected to a satellite uplink. I had a workstation built and installed today and am interested in comments re a satellite uplink that will provide VoIP phones, digital television and at least ten computer connections. Personally I don't a future in using Apple equipment, as good as it is, to run a Windows environment to run Xactimate. Just too much trouble. My suggestion, if you are going to use a lap top is to buy a new one, with 4gigs of RAM, XP will recognize 3.8 gigs and install all 4 major estimating systems, Xactimate, Simsol, Powerclaim and Integreclaim.

 Chuck, my husband David has been using a satellite dish since 2005 and loves it. He used it in '05 & '06 in two different areas of Florida, the first time in a remote area around Lake Okochobee (spelling?) and then in the Ft. Lauderdale area in '06 also while handling Wilma claims. Never had any trouble with it. He's now down in the Houston area about ready to wrap it up and head home to Ft. Worth but has used it for the last 6 weeks or so, pretty much without problem. As long as you had a clear view of the southern sky (sounds like the HughesNet commercial, huh?) it pretty much is flawless. He did have the VOIP back then but doesn't use it now. He experienced a 1-2 second delay between when you speak and when the other person on the line hears it, so conversations were rather tedious. He has a DataSatPlus version. It's not the commercial version which can run  multiple stations but then didn't cost an arm and a leg like that version. He has been using Starband Communications. DataSatPlus is supported by a company in Austin, TX. He found that out when he did have to have something replaced on the sat. Hope this helps.

Posted By Remi Odediran on 09 Nov 2008 08:10 PM

I would like to read from experienced guys running Simsol, Xm8 etc on their Mac loaded with parallel windows. Specifically, correct setup, challenges and how they overcame them, what to expect and which softwares run best in the parallel environment.  I am leaning towards Simsol and will probably go for their training very soon.