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I've bought a 15" macbook pro (2.16GHz model) and a more recent 17" macbook pro (thanks, work!). I prefer the 17" - it's not that much bigger than the 15, and

I've bought a 15" macbook pro (2.16GHz model) and a more recent 17" macbook pro (thanks, work!). I prefer the 17" - it's not that much bigger than the 15, and offers significantly more res even without the 1920x1200 option. I don't think the macbook air would make a great dev machine.

jgrahamc 19y ago
Clearly the MBA is not a good development machine, you want as much screen as possible for that. I have a MBP 17" with the HD screen as my primary machine. I am very happy with it (and I've been through a lot of laptops starting way back with DOS based laptops, through all the Windows variants and with a Linux detour). MBP + VMWare is a perfect combination for me. Dual cores are really nice (have recently been doing some stuff on forgery detection in images, which I'll open source soon, and I can tie up an entire core doing image processing and not notice the difference).