[LRUG] Development on Macbook Air

[James Adam]

I spent a fortnight with a first-gen 11" Air, and it was plenty fast enough for development. Its not the fastest, obviously, but never noticeably slow when standing on it's own.

So I'm confident the new 13" Air will be sufficient.

James



On 14 Aug 2011, at 15:52, Claudio Ortolina <cloud8421 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to wrap my head around a the new 13" Macbook Air.
> 
> Judging by the specs it seems a nice machine to develop on.
> 
> I'm currently using a Core 2 Duo Macbook (2 Ghz) with 4GB of RAM and a SSD, however I'm starting to have some issues with loading times for Rails and Cucumber/RSpec. I use Spork when I can, however it doesn't play nice with some gems so many times I simply need to run specs and features without it.
> 
> I'm wondering if any of you either has or has tried developing Ruby and Rails on a MBA, how fast it is and if it's a good choice. I'd like to avoid another Macbook Pro as I'd like to have a light machine.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Claudio
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