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2 years ago I got a 2013 model Macbook Air with 512GB SSD / 8GB RAM for app development. Turns out I now use it as my daily driver and I had preordered the orig
by martin-adams 8y ago
2 years ago I got a 2013 model Macbook Air with 512GB SSD / 8GB RAM for app development. Turns out I now use it as my daily driver and I had preordered the original Surface Book. Being a Windows user something made me switch (first Mac with an SSD and an ultrawide monitor).
I basically leave it docked all the time. I really want to upgrade because I need more RAM and for video editing. But to give you an idea, I'm using it perfectly fine with XCode running docker containers with Mongo/Neo4j etc. Email, web and office stuff is no issue at all.
I paid about £940 ($1200) in Jan 2016. After all this time, I can sell it for £300 (30% of it's original value).
- lakechfoma 8y agoAh that's pretty encouraging. I see an $809 model right now from 2015 with 8GB/128GB which is all I need for my current day-to-day. I'm not even sure how iOS development works yet, but you think the <2 GHz processor is fine with the whole toolset? Any complaints at all? Like any CPU intensive aspects that get bogged down
- sjm-lbm 8y agoI'd worry a bit about the 128GB SSD if you are getting this for iOS development. My Mac is at home (so I can't check) but the current version of xCode + iOS simulators/dev tools is in the tens of GBs (40 or so GB, IIRC). I honestly think macOS + xCode + Office is really close to 128GB by itself, but I am going from memory here.
- martin-adams 8y agoThe CPU is ok, not brilliant but works. I agree with the sibling comment that the 128GB will be a squeeze. For me RAM and storage (SSD) are most important. I've also used VirtualBox a lot on this little thing and played in the iOS simulator (mainly to reproduce web bugs).