I did not keep it as I decided I could get another year or so out of my 13" MacBook, but a few months ago I bought the 11" MacBook Air (2gb version.... the 4 was not available as I bought it the first day of release), and had it for a week. Loaded all my dev environment and it was as fast or faster than my current machine -- I thought the SSD did make boot up and coming back from sleep a lot faster. I was concerned with the power of the computer but in the store I opened just about every app the thing had in it at the same time and it did not miss a beat when switching between them. The only thing I realized is that with the 11" my posture got worse as I kept inclining to see the screen :) But for me unless I have a change of heart, I plan on getting the 13" MBA.
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Ollie <[email protected]> wrote: > Pointless question I know as an experienced programmer can work with > any hardware but I wanted some opinions on the new macbook air 13". > > My current PC which is a 1.2ghz dual core with 4gb of ram is on it's > last legs. I've been running ubuntu and while the machine hasn't been > lightning quick it gets the job done. So I was thinking of getting the > new MBA with 1.86ghz and 4GB of ram and was wondering whether anyone > had any experience with it, I just need to kick round rails and push > my projects up to heroku. The only heavy thing I have to deal with is > some large databases around 40mb. Does the SSD help? Right now I can't > stretch to a MBP 15" and I need to replace this week so any advice > would be appreciated. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
