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> My boss I hope he is not reading this forum.
> .. was willing to get me the pretty and feature-rich IntelliJ, but I: > (1) Wanted to save our company nearly $500 because I'm a good employee.
I'm afraid your "smart" saving is costing him much much much more than $500 in lost productivity and lower code quality. Even if you worked for free or peanuts, you would miss the many features that helps you write clean and solid code (the inspections), the integrated JUnit integration, the code formatter, the code pointer sharing (ideTalk plugin), etc, etc...
If you disagree then, obviously, you don't know IDEA's power. If you really want to be a good employee, give it a try and evaluate it for a month.
> (2) Couldn't bear what IntelliJ was doing to my PowerBook's RAM. I guess it depends on your project's size, but it works fine on mine, with 1GB and java 5.
Alain