Do you find that 4GB of RAM is enough when you have an SSD? I had 4GB in my Macbook, but no SSD, and I upgraded it to 8GB because it was regularly hitting swap and just bugging the crap out of me. I'm thinking of one client app in particular that can run up to 1GB easily when you run the test suite...
On 25/10/2012, at 10:40 AM, Daryl Manning <daryl.mann...@gmail.com> wrote: > Definitely. I was using mine and it was more than adequate (and older 2010 > model) with 4GB and 256GB. They are great dev machines. The only issue is if > you need to run a lot of VMs for testing IE and such on it. Other than that, > no qualms about it whatsoever (other than the fact it just died in Tonga.). > > So, just about ot head to the Apple store this weekend to see the new 13" > retina MBP, but keen on just upgrading to a newer macbook air. > > D. > > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Rich Buggy <r...@zoombugmedia.com> wrote: > Hi everyone > > I'm planning to switch my development machine from Windows to Macintosh. Is a > MacBook Air (with 4GB memory) sufficient for Rails development? The tech > specs are better than my current Windows laptop, which works fine for me, but > I've never developed on a Mac so I'm not sure if should be spending the extra > on MacBook Pro. Any advice is appreciated. > > 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/-/B7UIq0vYIZsJ. > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
