OT - Selecting a Mac for development

[Fabrizio Giudici]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 10:30:49 +0200, Lussier, Denis <denisl at openscg.com>  
wrote:

> I usually advise folks who presently want a MacBook for development, and
> price is an important consideration, to go with an 8 GB, non-retina  
> display
> MacBook Pro w/ at least a 512 GB spinning rust drive.  This is a  
> reasonably
> priced great machine that will last you for years.  The design is a  
> little

My additional advice is that people need memory and disk (possibly SSD),  
but not necessarily the latest model and/or a retina display, even though  
it's cool. I've replaced by 4.5 years old macbook with a new model, but it  
is a late 2011 one. I have 16GB of RAM, quad core, I've manually upgraded  
the disk for a 512GB SSD, I've saved some bucks but above all it's still a  
laptop where I can replace things on my own, including the battery. Retina  
apart, I think I'm missing almost nothing (with the exception of USB 3). I  
hope that in the next three years (expected minimum lifetime of my current  
laptop) Apple will be able to provide ultra-slim and light stuff, but  
where you can change components - a computer for an engineer it's  
something that the engineer must be able to tweak into, IMO.


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