Re: XCode 4 System Requirement
Re: XCode 4 System Requirement
- Subject: Re: XCode 4 System Requirement
- From: Dennis Munsie <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 21:13:04 -0400
You might get a little more mileage out of that machine by upgrading the RAM to 2GB. If you are feeling really brave, you can even upgrade the CPU to a 2GHz Core 2 Duo -- I've done it on the two minis I have here. But honestly, if this is a machine you are trying to make a living with, I would say just bite the bullet and get a new machine. Since the iMacs just got updated with Sandy Bridge and Thunderbolt, I would recommend going that route. I have a late-2009 vintage iMac and it's been fantastic. The new machines are even better -- every iMac that Apple currently sells is plenty for iOS development, IMO. Just don't forget to add more RAM -- 8GB should be your minimum.
dennis
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Yose Widjaja
<email@hidden> wrote:
Greetings,
I've been using Xcode 2 up til 3 for iPhone development for the past few years on my core duo 1.83ghz mac mini.
It was not exactly the speediest machine, especially with the fact that my project has almost 300 source files going for it. Most of the coding work is done on another machine (not under mac), but the compilation is done on this mac mini.
This mac mini only barely managed to run xcode 3 and compile things, and it's not exactly the fastest machine around. But then I installed xcode 4 upon hearing that the new instruments are very useful for opengl optimization (which I was working on), and now XCode 4 is running extremely slowly.
The indexing just does not ever stop, it makes the mouse extremely jumpy and the OS becomes unbearably unresponsive. Right now I'm still waiting for the program to run on the iPhone, but for some reason it's stuck just after the splash page, and XCode is not responding. This is total hell.
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?
Or do I have to shell out $2k+ and buy a mac tower?
Cheers
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