Re: Is Mac Mini capable to develop cocoa app?
Re: Is Mac Mini capable to develop cocoa app?
- Subject: Re: Is Mac Mini capable to develop cocoa app?
- From: Mark Dawson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:36:37 -0800
It should be plenty of fast. The slow drive (if you have enough RAM)
shouldn't effect you at all. I did a recent XCode test (you can search
the XCode archives for RAM Disk), putting all of my project on a RAM
disk, plus the Cocoa framework itself ; it turned out that the regular
disk usually beat the RAM disk in speed (15.6 sec vs 16.4 seconds).
That would indicate to me that drive speed isn't much of an issue--as
long as you have enough RAM. I was running a Dual 1 GHz G4, with 1.5
GB of RAM. With the RAM disk (100 MB in size), I watched memory and it
never got below 300 MB "free" (so the disk cache was in full swing).
All that said, if you are going to develop, 512 MB is the absolute min,
and 1 GB is the preferred choice.
Mark
On Mar 11, 2005, at 7:42 AM, Derek Li wrote:
I'd like to buy a Mac Mini. Not sure if it's capable enough to do
cocoa dev?
Yes. The only limitation is the disk is a little slow for compiles,
but it will work. You might want to add a faster a firewire drive at
some point.
Do I need to buy the expensive model (1G RAM)?
The more ram the better.
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