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<$1000 mac for even moderate development use cases? your bias is showing now.
by mgkimsal 9y ago
<$1000 mac for even moderate development use cases? your bias is showing now.
- rolha-capoeira 9y agoYes, even for moderate development use cases. I've never had any problems.
- jclardy 9y agoThe $500 Mac mini can handle Xcode just fine, and that is a many year old machine that hasn't been updated. Maybe not if you've been spoiled on better hardware, but it performs adequately.
- rsynnott 9y agoMacBook Air and Mini should be fine for most stuff, certainly for glorified web apps.
- OtterCoder 9y agoExactly. I write the main code on my Linux machine, then switch to the MacMini for testing and UI finalization.
- cache_miss 9y agoI used my personal $500 mac mini for full-time desktop and webapp development when employed at Citrix. This excludes the cost of peripherals, of course.
- evilduck 9y agoWe're talking about a Cordova-wrapped SPA. You can develop those on Raspberry Pis if you had to. A 9 year old $250 MBP off ebay will absolutely suffice.
- zghst 9y agoI bought a 2013 Macbook Pro for $700. Retina Display. Where there's a will, there's a way.