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Re: XCode 4 System Requirement
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Re: XCode 4 System Requirement


  • Subject: Re: XCode 4 System Requirement
  • From: Bill Bumgarner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 13:23:36 -0700


On May 24, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Yose Widjaja wrote:

My question is, what is the minimum system requirement for running xcode 4 with this many files? Would the latest mac mini with the 4GB ram work well enough? My current one only has 1GB, maybe that explains why?

If your project has a bunch of C++ files, that can easily cause the memory use to explode.   In general, 1GB is pretty anemic for a development machine.  The base configurations of all Macs these days is at least 2GB. 

In general, the more RAM the better.

A Mac Mini + 8GB would do quite well.

Or do I have to shell out $2k+ and buy a mac tower?

The iMacs are fantastic development machines.  I have a 27" iMac w/16GB that is flat out awesome for dev work.   Beautiful screen, too.  It is the previous generation, so I can use it as a monitor for my [work provided] 13" MacBook Pro (the new ones can't do that, but ThunderBolt means epic fast external storage is likely in the near future-- a number of external TB drives have already been announced by LaCie and others).



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