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This is true. And it used to be false. It used to be that you should develop and test on the newest, fastest hardware available, because PC sales were growing
by mooism2 15y ago
This is true. And it used to be false.
It used to be that you should develop and test on the newest, fastest hardware available, because PC sales were growing exponentially and by the time your software had sat in a shrink-wrapped box in a shop somewhere for three months, most of your potential customers would have more powerful PCs than you could buy now.
This scenario is now wrong in two respects.
First, PCs are now a mature market. Sales are flat. People and companies are going longer and longer without upgrading. So a greater proportion of the market is using older hardware.
Second, the supply chain is shorter. Obviously in the case of a website, the update is instant. But even in the case of Apple's app store, it takes less than a month to get your app in your customers' hands.
- mise 15y agoOne scenario I can think of is investing in a tablet, if only to test how a web app runs on it.
- limkianyong 15y agoAnd also on Macs for testing on Safari.
- mooism2 15y agoYou may be missing the point. Sure, buy a Mac so you can test your site on it, but buy an old, slow Mac, not a top-of-the-range shiny thing. Tablets --- that's more interesting, because they're all new. I don't know to what extent it makes sense to optimise for the ipad 2 -v- the original ipad.
- limkianyong 15y agoTrue, after going through the comments again, getting an old Mac mini is going to make more sense than getting a new Mac.
- mtogo 15y agoWhat, really? Buy a 2k+ computer to test a browser you can download on Windows?
- Semiapies 15y agoIf there's any call to do that, you only have to buy a Mini for $600.
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