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 machine actually feels faster in day-to-day because of the SSD. Apple more or less correctly nailed it on how to build ultrabooks: Make it a slow as crap processor so battery life is awesome and no matter what you do, you don't even hear the fans, and bank on the SSD to make it not feel like a machine from yesteryear. 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. It's a good thing I almost always shortcut the development process by using a hot-swapping debugger (eclipse's, in my case); I rarely actually build anything from scratch. On Monday, October 8, 2012 9:18:03 AM UTC+2, Casper Bang wrote: > > 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 by making the upcoming successor architecture (Haswell) favor > a reduction of TDP (17W -> 10W) rather than performance. > > On Monday, October 8, 2012 5:48:18 AM UTC+2, ranjith wrote: >> >> With so many choice on thin and "mobile" laptops, I am thinking of >> switching from my Apple MBP 15" for smaller laptop. >> Is anyone using ultrabook for development purpose and have success >> stories with eclipse and an app. server running pretty decently on it? >> Answers appreciated. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/17iGs23cyFYJ. 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/javaposse?hl=en.
