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The hardware is definitely solid, whether you go for macbook pro, which has faster cpu but needs aftermarket SSD, or macbook air that is slower but has SSD inte
by glogla 15y ago
The hardware is definitely solid, whether you go for macbook pro, which has faster cpu but needs aftermarket SSD, or macbook air that is slower but has SSD integrated and has better resolution.
The OS ... depends on what are you developing. Mac OS is about as good for consuming stuff as windows 7, i.e. pretty good. For developing web apps, with textmate and github you're golden. But for full scale unix coding, you can't get better than Linux, in the amount of helpful software available, and while homebrew is cool, it has long way to go from aptitude.
Also, Apple kind of screwed up things with their throwing out of gcc (which was obsolete and strange version anyway) so you can't even compile lot of FOSS on Mac OS right now, especially multimedia software.
EDIT: for the record, I'm using old old old 2007 Macbook with OCZ SSD.
- nilsbunger 15y agoHomebrew is awesome to solve the gcc issue and get lots of other packages without messing with the system.
- bricestacey 15y agoYou can still install gcc. There are packages somewhere on github.
- glogla 15y agoInteresting. Where?
- bricestacey 15y agohttps://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer Use the prebuilt packages in the readme.
- glogla 15y agoI'll take a look, thanks. But if I understand the description (and if I remember my experience from trying it out correctly), this is just gcc with llvm backend but without Xcode. That's useful if you don't care about Xcode, iPad development and just want compiler, but it doesn't solve the problem you can't compile ffmpeg, mplayer, mysql and others on Mac OS. It's however possible I remember wrong package, so I'll check that out.
- bricestacey 15y agoI haven't tried ffmpeg, mplayer, or mysql but it let me build ruby using ruby-build.