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Last PPC macs were G5 towers in August 2k6, which have plenty of power... And raw beefy system specs aren't really that much of a need for people doing e.g. Rub
by ptomato 17y ago
Last PPC macs were G5 towers in August 2k6, which have plenty of power... And raw beefy system specs aren't really that much of a need for people doing e.g. Ruby coding because hey, Ruby is slow anyway. And the cross-section of people who use Git and people who code Ruby is quite large. http://github.com/languages http://github.com/languages
- Zev 17y agoIntel Mac's were announced in June 2005 ([1]). Apple started shipping them in the beginning of 2006. Anyone who bought a PPC Mac in August 2006 won't get any pity from me. And, where isn't it important to have a fast dev machine for, you know, actually getting work done and making sure the code works. The speed differences between a PPC mac and a current day Mac are huge. Yes, you can probably get by with a PPC mac if you don't actually execute any code on your machine. But, I would guess that thats very rare, if your job involves coding. [1] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.html http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.html
- ptomato 17y agoAgain, for anyone coding in a scripting language the speed difference isn't particularly significant and isn't enough to affect your workflow noticeably. What specifically doing Rails coding need a fast dev machine for?
- dasil003 17y agoTakes me 3 minutes to run our full test suite, takes some of my colleagues > 10 minutes. Importing a dump of our production DB takes me only 4 hours, takes them 10.
- dasil003 17y agoRuby coding because hey, Ruby is slow anyway This logic is absolutely backwards.