I have a MBP 2009 (8Gb), MBP Retina (16gb), and MB Air 2011 (i7 8Gb) ... The Air is by far the best of all of them for Rails dev... I love the screen on the MBP Retina, but the extra weight makes the Air much more enjoyable to use when I'm anything other than stationary
I can pick the Air up with one hand to move from the balcony to the couch or to the best ... the battery lasts forever ... the screen is more than enough (especially when you use spaces properly) ... and the SSD and 8Gb of ram shows no noticeable slow down compared to my MBPs for anything other than heavyweight apps like Photoshop or a windows VM My Retina gets massively less use than I thought it would get, my Air is still the clear choice 90% of the time The new MBP 13" Retina might have been a better call for me ... though I still love my Air :) On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Rich Buggy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone > > I'm planning to switch my development machine from Windows to Macintosh. > Is a MacBook Air (with 4GB memory) sufficient for Rails development? The > tech specs are better than my current Windows laptop, which works fine for > me, but I've never developed on a Mac so I'm not sure if should be spending > the extra on MacBook Pro. Any advice is appreciated. > > Rich > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rails-oceania/-/B7UIq0vYIZsJ. > 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/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" 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/rails-oceania?hl=en.
