Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Anyone using ultrabook for development?

2012-11-08 Thread phil swenson
IntelliJ was updated for Retina months ago. Looks great. I take the font size down a fair bit as having super sharp text lets you go smaller than you would normally be comfortable with. On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:40 AM, ranjith sen...@gmail.com wrote: That sounds sweet. But it definitely is an

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Anyone using ultrabook for development?

2012-11-07 Thread ranjith
That sounds sweet. But it definitely is an expensive rig Does Java apps ( IntelliJ, Netbeans) font render fine on retina? I had tried eclipse at apple store and it looked pretty crappy. Then there was some hi DPI config entry that one had to make it look perfect. I am planning to get macbook

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Anyone using ultrabook for development?

2012-11-07 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:40:04 +0100, ranjith sen...@gmail.com wrote: That sounds sweet. But it definitely is an expensive rig Does Java apps ( IntelliJ, Netbeans) font render fine on retina? No, as far as I can tell, even though I'm not sure. This is indeed a showstopper for our idea. I

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Anyone using ultrabook for development?

2012-11-07 Thread Cédric Beust ♔
For what it's worth, I'm using Eclipse on a Mac Book Pro Retina display and it's crystal clear (and frighteningly small if you go for the highest setting). -- Cédric On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Fabrizio Giudici fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it wrote: On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:40:04 +0100,

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Anyone using ultrabook for development?

2012-11-07 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:40:49 +0100, Cédric Beust ♔ ced...@beust.com wrote: For what it's worth, I'm using Eclipse on a Mac Book Pro Retina display and it's crystal clear (and frighteningly small if you go for the highest setting). For NetBeans this seems to be the most recent status (from

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Anyone using ultrabook for development?

2012-10-23 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
Resuming this discussion at the light of recent news. Apple has just added a 13 with Retina display. Premised that I'm not going to change laptop until I get 768GB/1TB of SSD at a reasonable price (it might happen in one year, I think that the first 1TB SSD are going to be introduced next month),

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Anyone using ultrabook for development?

2012-10-23 Thread phil swenson
you going to use it with OS X or Linux? OS X it will have a desktop layout like 1280x800, but with super sharp text (you can reduce your IDE font to be very small and it will still be legible) If you are running linux, is will present as 2560x1600. On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Fabrizio

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Anyone using ultrabook for development?

2012-10-23 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:11:05 +0200, phil swenson phil.swen...@gmail.com wrote: you going to use it with OS X or Linux? OS X it will have a desktop layout like 1280x800, but with super sharp text (you can reduce your IDE font to be very small and it will still be legible) It's what I was

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Anyone using ultrabook for development?

2012-10-23 Thread phil swenson
I have a MBP 15 Retina. So effective 1440x900 desktop (but 2880x1800 in reality). I took intellij's font size down a bit and love it. Perfectly clear, incredibly readable text. Hooking my mac up to my 27 external display (2550x1450) now makes everything look kind of lousy in comparison. On

[The Java Posse] Re: Anyone using ultrabook for development?

2012-10-15 Thread Reinier Zwitserloot
My only machine right now is a late 2010 macbook air 11. Yeah, the really REALLY slow ones. A fresh clean build of lombok takes ~45 seconds on this thing, and a buddy of mine who bought a new desktop PC with all the frills can do the same thing in about 8 seconds. Ouch. Nevertheless, my

[The Java Posse] Re: Anyone using ultrabook for development?

2012-10-15 Thread Casper Bang
On Monday, October 15, 2012 1:32:02 PM UTC+2, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: Having said that, I'm strongly considering selling this one and buying the most recent MBA because they did a lot of work on making the processor faster. Holy crap, Apple started making x86 CPU's now too?! I knew they

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Anyone using ultrabook for development?

2012-10-10 Thread Jim Cheesman
Did you have any problems getting Ubuntu to run on your Zenbook? On Monday, 8 October 2012 11:04:52 UTC+2, Raul wrote: I use a Asus Zenbook UX31E with Ubuntu. I agree with Andreas, screen size is the biggest obstacle. I usually have open Chrome with over 10-20 tabs open (I am bad closing

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Anyone using ultrabook for development?

2012-10-10 Thread Raul Guiu
Some nasty problems with sudden shutdowns while plugin and unplugging the power cable. With the kernel 3.5.3 is a lot better and is not happening. Everything else worked out of the box. In Ubuntu's website you can find good pages with possible issues. On 10 October 2012 11:00, Jim Cheesman

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Anyone using ultrabook for development?

2012-10-09 Thread Ben Smith-Mannschott
I use a 2010 MBA as a secondary development machine and am pleased with the battery life and performance, but I don't develop things that have to be hosted on an app server. Eclipse and Emacs run well enough. I find the SSD makes up for the relative lack of CPU performance (the 2010 MBA is still a

[The Java Posse] Re: Anyone using ultrabook for development?

2012-10-08 Thread Casper Bang
A Macbook Air has no trouble pulling an IDE and an application server, although I don't use it as a primary development machine. It's my subjective feeling though that modern ivy-bridge ultrabooks with an SSD, are now fast enough to support most development tasks. In a way Intel confirms this

[The Java Posse] Re: Anyone using ultrabook for development?

2012-10-08 Thread Andreas Johansson
I'm using a MacBook Air (13') and are very happy with it performance wise. The only need for a larger computer in my opinion is if you are doing graphics oriented tasks and therefore need a discrete GPU. The time where the smaller computers are a lot slower than a ordinary sized laptop is in

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Anyone using ultrabook for development?

2012-10-08 Thread Raul Guiu
I use a Asus Zenbook UX31E with Ubuntu. I agree with Andreas, screen size is the biggest obstacle. I usually have open Chrome with over 10-20 tabs open (I am bad closing things), Eclipse, SublimeText, Postgres admin tool (plus Postgres DB in the backend). I sometimes push it to the limit and miss