You guys will hate my setup, But it is by far the cheapest :) I love my iMac at home, there's nothing better. But for mobility or those moments of couch programming I bought a refurbished IBM Thinkpad for only $230 bucks from ebay. of course it runs Ubuntu... Holds 4 hours of battery, super fast even with only 3G of RAM and has THE BEST keyboard ever(seriously). Very on-a-budget!
cheers, Fabio. On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Samuel Richardson <[email protected]>wrote: > Biggest difference for me has been working of an SSD. 4 gigs or 8 gigs > would make far less difference then going between a HD to an SSD. > > On 25/10/2012, at 7:16 PM, Chris Berkhout <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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]> 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]> >>> 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]. >>> > 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
