I'd be careful with anything processor intensive. You don't get anything for free. If you need the weight/price, I'd check it out. Otherwise . . .
I am thinking of one as a travel/backup machine though . . . and they seem quite capable for Rails dev in Textmate. Best Wishes, Peter On Jan 25, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: > Walter Davis wrote in post #977401: >> On Jan 25, 2011, at 9:22 AM, David Kahn wrote: >> >>> 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. > > That's very interesting to know. I have a 3-year-old MacBook Pro which > I love, but it's probably time to get a new laptop soon. I wonder if an > Air would be suitable. Maybe not, though; I plan to use it for audio > and live looping at least as much as software development (I do both > music and programming professionally...yes, I'm busy). I wonder if the > Air can keep up with the real-time sound processing... > >> >> Walter > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koser > http://www.marnen.org > [email protected] > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
