Re: New List member, buying a new Macbook
Hmmm, I always prefer more RAM. Over everything else, RAM. Over bigger hd, over faster CPU. It's the one resource you're most likely to run out of as you work with your machine, in my experience. Just my two cents (American). Janina Simon Fogarty writes: > Hi Ben, > > It really depends on what it is your wanting to do, > > Ok so you will be wanting xCode which will take up space, > But there will be other things you want, > > My personal thought would be a money dependant one, > And that being can you afford to up the storage space to 512GB with the 16GB > ram and 2018 I5 1.6GHz processor? > > Or the machine I priced for myself today, > > The 2017 13" mac book air, > 8GB ram, > I7 2.2GHz processor, > 512GB storage, > Increase your storage and you should be good to go. > > If you really need power then look at the mac book pro without touch bar. > Hope that is somewhat helpful and welcome to the list.-Original > Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On > Behalf Of B G > Sent: Monday, 6 May 2019 3:31 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: New List member, buying a new Macbook > > Hi there, > Ben here, just joined the list, so go gently on me please. *smile* I was > wondering if the list had any tips on buying a new MacBook. I'm thinking of > finally taking the plunge into the world of iOS and indeed Mac OS software > development. So far the MacBook Air (2018) with 16GB ram and 128SSD seems the > most attractive choice. I have however been informed that 128gb ssd won't be > adequate for xcode and associated tools on top of the usual load of software > and stored data. What does the list think? > Looking forward to your responses. > Cheers, > Ben > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Janina Sajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectureshttp://www.w3.org/wai/apa -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received thi
Re: New List member, buying a new Macbook
128Gb will be fine for xcode (and others like home brew). You may want a larger drive if you plan to use Bootcamp to also run Windows 10 on this machine. I would max the RAM, and minimize the screen--unless you need the screen. If my info is accurate, i believe the newer Macbookstill have no boot chime option. That's a deadly problem for multi boot environments, imo. You're playing a guessing game in that caseunless someone can verify that just holding the option key on start suffices. Best, Janina B G writes: > Hi there, > Ben here, just joined the list, so go gently on me please. *smile* > I was wondering if the list had any tips on buying a new MacBook. I'm > thinking of finally taking the plunge into the world of iOS and indeed > Mac OS software development. So far the MacBook Air (2018) with 16GB > ram and 128SSD seems the most attractive choice. I have however been > informed that 128gb ssd won't be adequate for xcode and associated > tools on top of the usual load of software and stored data. What does > the list think? > Looking forward to your responses. > Cheers, > Ben > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Janina Sajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectureshttp://www.w3.org/wai/apa -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: New List member, buying a new Macbook
Hi Ben, It really depends on what it is your wanting to do, Ok so you will be wanting xCode which will take up space, But there will be other things you want, My personal thought would be a money dependant one, And that being can you afford to up the storage space to 512GB with the 16GB ram and 2018 I5 1.6GHz processor? Or the machine I priced for myself today, The 2017 13" mac book air, 8GB ram, I7 2.2GHz processor, 512GB storage, Increase your storage and you should be good to go. If you really need power then look at the mac book pro without touch bar. Hope that is somewhat helpful and welcome to the list.-Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of B G Sent: Monday, 6 May 2019 3:31 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: New List member, buying a new Macbook Hi there, Ben here, just joined the list, so go gently on me please. *smile* I was wondering if the list had any tips on buying a new MacBook. I'm thinking of finally taking the plunge into the world of iOS and indeed Mac OS software development. So far the MacBook Air (2018) with 16GB ram and 128SSD seems the most attractive choice. I have however been informed that 128gb ssd won't be adequate for xcode and associated tools on top of the usual load of software and stored data. What does the list think? Looking forward to your responses. Cheers, Ben -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: New List member, buying a new Macbook
Hello Ben, The MacBook Air is a great little machine, but if you can afford to go for a bigger SSD, it’s worth it. Cheers, Anne > On 6 May 2019, at 05:30, B G wrote: > > Hi there, > Ben here, just joined the list, so go gently on me please. *smile* > I was wondering if the list had any tips on buying a new MacBook. I'm > thinking of finally taking the plunge into the world of iOS and indeed > Mac OS software development. So far the MacBook Air (2018) with 16GB > ram and 128SSD seems the most attractive choice. I have however been > informed that 128gb ssd won't be adequate for xcode and associated > tools on top of the usual load of software and stored data. What does > the list think? > Looking forward to your responses. > Cheers, > Ben > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
New List member, buying a new Macbook
Hi there, Ben here, just joined the list, so go gently on me please. *smile* I was wondering if the list had any tips on buying a new MacBook. I'm thinking of finally taking the plunge into the world of iOS and indeed Mac OS software development. So far the MacBook Air (2018) with 16GB ram and 128SSD seems the most attractive choice. I have however been informed that 128gb ssd won't be adequate for xcode and associated tools on top of the usual load of software and stored data. What does the list think? Looking forward to your responses. Cheers, Ben -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
