mcdevhammer

Seeing some recent posts of salaries for people at Google etc in what seems to be mostly California the numbers seem very high to me. I know cost of living can have a large effect on salary and I'm curious what developers are making up here in Canada, specifically the Toronto area. I am I suppose what you would call a senior developer (still only my 1st real job out of school, but have been promoted since I started about 2 years ago). I'm currently making $75k base and with bonuses and pension/stock matching it comes out to around $90k.

I'm seriously considering buying a Macbook Pro Retina 15" and plan on spending a lot of time in Windows, specifically with Visual Studio. I am a little concerned over threads where people have complained about "fuzzyness" when running Windows under non native resolution and scaling issues when using native (2880x1800) resolution with DPI scaling. Is there anybody who currently runs this setup and give feedback on their experience running Windows (either virtualized or in bootcamp)?

Given the recent post on the best Linux laptop I figured we could expand the discussion to laptops for Windows as well. I'm really leaning towards a Macbook, all other laptops just seem inferior in terms of hardware, but is it really the best option for running Windows?