Re: Mac Mini or iMac for Cocoa Development?
Re: Mac Mini or iMac for Cocoa Development?
- Subject: Re: Mac Mini or iMac for Cocoa Development?
- From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:48:37 +1000
On 14/09/2009, at 5:53 AM, Michael Rogers wrote:
I am leaning towards iMacs, because these computers will serve as
ambassadors as well as development machines; I want to double-check
that if we have to go to Mac Minis, say with 4 GB of RAM, we won't
be waiting forever to compile a simple program.
iMac will probably be a better development machine than a Mini. RAM
aside, the graphics processor makes a big difference to real-world
performance.
Compile time wise, don't worry about it. While compilation seems to
have actually got slower over the years (though apps much more
complex), consider that back in the day we had to compile applications
on 20MHz machines (or even less - my first Mac had 8 MHz to compile
Turbo Pascal apps) and it was perfectly feasible. A 2GHz+ dual-core
processor is barely ticking over on compilation work.
--Graham
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