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: Chaz McGarvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:40:16 -0700
On Mar 11, 2005, at 8:50 PM, James J. Merkel wrote:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:36:37 -0800 Mark Dawson wrote:
All that said, if you are going to develop, 512 MB is the absolute
min,
and 1 GB is the preferred choice.
I guess I disagree -- a G3 iMac with 256 Mb is perfectly adequate to
develop Cocoa apps.
As a matter of fact, an application should be tested on the slowest
Mac with the least amount of memory.
I certainly wouldn't want to develop on such a machine. It could be
used that way, but if there was a cheap and much faster alternative
(Mac Mini), then I would certainly upgrade to that and keep the iMac
for testing. Likewise, I would have at least a gig of memory, not
because it's required for development, but because the more room the
merrier ... and I run a lot of stuff at the same time.
So in short, yes even a G3 iMac with 256MB is "adequate" for Cocoa
development, but it certainly isn't desirable. Besides, RAM is pretty
cheap.
Chaz McGarvey
http://www.brokenzipper.com
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