A bit of a tangent here but if anyones in the market for a used MBP I have one for sale :) https://gist.github.com/JonRowe/f3a792f26cc8e1a74b5c
Jon Rowe --------------------------- m...@jonrowe.co.uk jonrowe.co.uk On Monday, 6 October 2014 at 13:12, Ben Hoskings wrote: > As others have said, any Mac from the past few years is fine. In fact even if > you made a point of buying the slowest new Mac you could find, it'd still be > fine. > > (Mine is a 3-year-old 11" i7/4GB Air.) > > With that in mind, I think there are other things that are more important. > For example, in my experience Airs run a fair bit cooler than Pros. That, and > the tapered shape, makes them much more comfortable on your lap. > > They're also around half the weight, which makes them much more comfortable > in your bag especially if it's one of several things you carry. > > - Ben > > > On 6 Oct 2014, at 5:37 am, Michael Pearson <mipear...@gmail.com > (mailto:mipear...@gmail.com)> wrote: > > > 8 GB RAM, 4 cores (real cores, not HT 'concurrent threads'), any Apple SSD. > > > > Then https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests to take advantage of the > > cores. > > > > This is assuming you have (or expect to have) slow tests. If not .. > > anything will do. > > > > Also, run whatever database you're using in YOLO mode during development: > > turn off fsync, data safety, etc. > > > > Disk space is only helpful for storing virtual machines and gargantuan > > music collections. > > > > If it's my money, I'd go the 2.5ghz. If it's your employer's, 2.8ghz. > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Andrew Grimm <andrew.j.gr...@gmail.com > > (mailto:andrew.j.gr...@gmail.com)> wrote: > > > I know this is a bit "How long is a piece of string?", but if a MacBook > > > Pro is being used for Rails development, how specced out should it be? > > > > > > Does CPU play a role in performance? Is it beneficial to have a 2.8GHz > > > Quad-core CPU compared to a 2.5GHz Quad-core CPU? > > > > > > How disk space hungry is Rails development? Is it better to have a 1TB > > > drive compared to a 512GB drive? > > > > > > Andrew > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > > email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > > (mailto:rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com). > > > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com > > > (mailto:rails-oceania@googlegroups.com). > > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > > > > -- > > Michael Pearson > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > (mailto:rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com). > > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com > > (mailto:rails-oceania@googlegroups.com). > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > (mailto:rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com). > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com > (mailto:rails-oceania@googlegroups.com). > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
