On Jan 25, 2011, at 9:22 AM, David Kahn wrote:
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.
The big difference for me is in TextMate, in a project with lots and
lots of files in it (like a Rails app with the gems unpacked). When
switching back and forth between Terminal and TextMate, there's almost
no pause to re-index all the files. I have the new MacBook and an 8-
core Mac Pro with a standard spinning disk, and the extra cores are
only really pushing me ahead when I'm doing something unrelated to
Rails, like Photoshop. The SSD is so amazingly faster at switching
contexts, which is what it seems I do all day long, that I find myself
sneaking off to the MacBook away from my giant two-screen Mac Pro.
Walter
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.
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