Larry Meadors wrote: > > Fred Stluka wrote: > > I've been very happy with my MacBook Pro. > > +1 > > I've used a Mac (tower, but same diff) for Android development. It's fine, simply because Mac looks just like Linux to an Android programmer.
> This isn't really on topic, so I'll keep it short. > > Mac+OSX Just Works. Worth every penny. One big downside is that you'll > never want to use Windows again. ;-) > Isn't that also the downside to using Windows? :-) > Ubuntu 10 and 12 are also VERY good - so much better recently than the > last time I used Linux on a desktop. If you're interested in diving > deeper into android (AOSP) Linux is a solid choice (see > http://source.android.com for more info). If you are worried about > your budget and don't mind tinkering to make things work (i.e., you > value money more than time) this is a viable option. They, too, just work. And if you're programming for Android, you will be tinkering. I don't know how much "tinkering" Ubuntu needs if you're programming. I've used Ubuntu for Android development, too, and it, too, just works. It's pretty straightforward as a programmer's OS. And it'll be fast enough, for a given hardware configuration. But I'd guess you can get a lot more speed for your buck through memory size first, and multi-core architecture second. Get at least a dual-core, preferably more, CPU configuration and tons of RAM. 4 GiB is plenty for Linux. I don't know enough about Mac to set a minimum. More is always better. Solid-state hard drives probably won't affect you as much. What do you mean by "complex build"? Any Android project I can imagine on any hardware that could reasonably run Vista should not take more than a minute or five to compile in Eclipse. What are you doing wrong? -- Lew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
