You should be fine, just make sure to get as much RAM as the budget will allow. ;) I have a MBP and the processors are roughly the same in the Minis; the only concession being the video card/GPU and its memory. Just remember that OS X likes RAM, and will make use of every megabyte you can spare.
As a disclaimer, I do most of my development at work on a Windows XP Home machine. However, the bit of work I have done on my MBP at home and at the OnAirBus Tour seemed to hum along just fine. Your mileage may vary, but if you have any Mac specific questions feel free to drop me an email off the board. -- William --- In [email protected], "Brendan Meutzner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I've requested and been approved for a Mac system for development. > Originally, they'd said I'd receive a macbook pro, which was great! Now > they're suggesting "well, maybe a mac mini is sufficient". I'm brand new to > Mac's, and don't know much about the platform, performance, etc... but know > I want one given my continually developing hatred for all things Microsoft. > > My question... is a Mac Mini going to be sufficient for day to day flex > development running FDS (BlazeDS), ColdFusion server, and FlexBuilder? > Should I be telling them, forget it, I need something better? > > Any help/suggestions appreciated :-) There's been some discussion on this > topic in here before, but never focusing on the mini as a development > machine. > > > Brendan > > > -- > Brendan Meutzner > http://www.meutzner.com/blog/ >
