I don't know the Air, but higher spec is more important if you work with VMs.
If you don't, I'm sure an Air or whatever is fine. Cheers, Chris On Thursday, 25 October 2012, Iain Beeston wrote: > I've just switched from a 2010 macbook pro to a 2012 air and I'm loving > the air. I'm having no memory issues, but I imagine if you use a > heavyweight ide (ie. rubymine) 4gb would be a struggle. > > > Iain > > > > On 25 October 2012 14:39, Lyndon Maydwell > <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');> > > wrote: > >> I have used 11" Airs for all my development since the first >> generation. The difference in weight really makes it a no-brainer to >> take everywhere with you. The older generations were a bit lightweight >> on specs for any Java development or things like that, but the newest >> generation is very powerful when upgraded with more ram and CPU. >> >> Absolutely recommended. >> >> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Rich Buggy >> <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');>> >> wrote: >> > First, thank you to everyone who replied. >> > >> > Unfortunately my time and budget limitations really only leave me with >> two >> > off the shelf choices: >> > - 13" MacBook Air with 4GB >> > - 15" MacBook Pro (also 4GB but can be upgraded later) >> > >> > I preferred the Air because it was lighter but was worried that 4GB >> wouldn't >> > be enough. It sounds like that isn't the case. >> > >> > Secondly, I agree about keeping this thread free from the Mac versus PC >> > religious war. I posted here because I've never developed on a Mac and I >> > didn't want to waste money on an Air only to discover that I really >> need a >> > Pro. I know a lot of the rails community uses Mac's so it seemed like >> the >> > logical thing was to ask for advice. >> > >> > >> > 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/-/f66IG5YZAUsJ. >> > >> > To post to this group, send email to >> > [email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', >> > '[email protected]');> >> . >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', >> 'rails-oceania%[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]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', >> '[email protected]');> >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', >> 'rails-oceania%[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]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');> > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > 'rails-oceania%[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.
