OT - Selecting a Mac for development

[Eric Richardson]

Hi Doug,

Yes the MacBook Pro Retina and the Air models are fixed at purchase
according to person at the Apple store I talked to. Not sure on the others.

I went ahead and got 15 inch retina because that one comes with 16GB memory
and 512GB SSD - I think this is plenty of power to get a useful life out of
the machine. It is definitely pricey.

I'm replacing an old iMac which I certainly got my money out of so I'm
hopeful this will be similar experience.

BTW, thank-you for all the people working to make the Mac a great Java
platform. It is very popular for developers for all the JVM targeted
platforms at a minimum.

Eric


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Doug Zwick <Doug.Zwick at blackboard.com>wrote:

> Michael Hall wrote:
>
> > On Jul 15, 2013, at 4:46 PM, Gregg Wonderly wrote:
> >
> >> I upgraded mine to 8 GB and it does better!
> >
> > I think writing to a smaller screen on a machine with less memory is
> better. Then think how much better it'll run on the others.
>
> IIRC, some of the current MacBook Pro models have their memory spec fixed
> at manufacture -- it is not possible to add memory later. I presume this is
> because the memory is not socketed, but mounted directly on the main logic
> board. Check the specs before ordering, otherwise you may limit the usable
> life of it (at least as a development machine).
>
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