And what, nuke windows and install linux or something?... =p On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Richard McGain <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm going to pipe up here with a counter argument. > > Buy an ultrabook. Just as light and portable as a mac, just as easy to > develop on. Battery life is great and even with 8gb, it's going to be > cheaper than a mac. > > Richard > > > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Ben Hoskings <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It depends on what you're running. >> >> I often head down the road to my local and do a battery's worth of >> hacking. If I left all my apps open I doubt I'd get that much, but if I >> quit the stuff I'm not using (leaving just sublime/terminal/safari) and >> make sure the brightness isn't too high then yeah, I'll get 3.5-4 hours out >> of it. >> >> There are a bunch of apps (Apple Mail is one) that use non-trivial CPU in >> the background. That makes a big difference because CPU (along with >> antennas and display backlighting) make up the bulk of the device's power >> drain. >> >> Also depends on the kind of dev work I'm doing. Working on a big rails >> app, you're going to burn the battery running specs and loading pages, no >> way around it. But if I'm hacking on babushka, which is pure ruby, then >> there's no app or spec boot time, so the battery goes a lot further. >> >> - Ben >> >> >> >> On 25/10/2012, at 11:43 AM, Daryl Manning <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > 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. 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