On 4/20/06, Tim Dysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I quit my job a few weeks ago and lost my work iBook 1.4Ghz 1.5GB. Not thinking ahead, I already had given my old 17" powerbook 1GHZ 1GB to my wife and she doesn't want to give it back now. :{ So, additected to OS X, I picked up a 17" LCD iMac 800Mhz for $200 (!) a couple weeks ago for the meantime until this summer when I buy a new MacBook.All that pointless info to say: I need something that will work effectively as a dev environment on that old clunker 17" iMac. It
FYI I have an old G3 700Mhz iBook I work on. I upped the RAM and that helps quite a bit. I've found the XCode (which if you don't have the disks that came with the machine you can download for free) is a very viable Ruby development tool. Some tool developer at Apple must be partial to Ruby because syntax highlighting is built right in. As a native application XCode is pretty lightweight and fast, and if you desire to get into RubyCocoa, you can even use the interface designer to build your GUI. s -- It's actually a pretty big world, it's just folded over on itself a lot. _______________________________________________ PDXRuby mailing list [email protected] IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
