Funnily enough, my only beef with the older MBA I had was the battery life. I'd be lucky to get 3 hours out of the thing, and I really felt like I need something that can hit 7-8 hours (enough for the majority of a long haul flight). Especially with an Ipad topping 10 hours, it drives me nuts when a plane doesn't have plugs for power when I'm out and about.
You could really get 3-4 hours out of the 11"? Can anyone comment on the latest time-to-dead for typical dev load on the newer 13" MBAs vs say, the new 13" retina MBP? Curious... (and real time to dead, not apple claimed...). ciao ! Daryl. On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Ben Hoskings <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rich, > > My only machine is an 11" Air (one revision old, i.e. 1.8GHz i7, 4GB RAM). > I'd fully recommend it as a primary development box. > > In particular, 4GB is plenty for my workload (multiple Sublime projects & > shells, browsers, mail, and the rest). This is what my RAM profile looks > like after a week of uptime: http://d.pr/qtmH > > It's a wonderful machine to cart around (it's not much heavier than an > iPad) and the battery life is very good (if you watch the brightness, 3-4 > hours). > > - Ben > > > > On 25/10/2012, 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. > > -- 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.
