Re: Develop with a Power/i Book
Re: Develop with a Power/i Book
- Subject: Re: Develop with a Power/i Book
- From: Joshua Scott Emmons <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 12:42:21 -0400
I would to buy a portable Apple Computer under the $1500. I have a
question: will can i develop software for OS X? Is the '12/'14 video
confortable to use the PB and other macosx development related tools?
The compiler can, of course, produce altivec-enhanced code, but it
doesn't use such code itself. It is quite RAM-hungry, however, so if
you're facing a choice of either a G4 PB with minimal RAM, or a G3
iBook with enough funds left for a RAM expansion, I'd say you should
go with the iBook.
FWIW, I was planing on upping my 12" to 640Mb when I bought it, but the
512Mb chips weren't available. Thus I'm running on the default 256Mb
right now (it comes with 128Mb built-in and a 128Mb expansion chip that
will basically be thrown away if you upgrade it later). I thought I
would be really unhappy with performance, but I routinely run PB, IB,
Terminal, iTunes (streaming songs from another Rendezvous-enabled
computer), iChat, Mail, Stickies, and Safari while writing reasonably
complicated document-based apps with multiple views in Cocoa. My
harddrive almost never spins up. top reports 73Mb of physical memory
is inactive, and I only have 3Mb free, so I'm clearly skating the line
as far as swapping goes, but you can get a heck of a lot more done and
256Mb then I thought.
Cheers,
-Josh Emmons
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