[LRUG] MacBook for Ruby dev work

[Sam Barton]

MacBook is nice and light, but stops at 8GB Ram with no option to upgrade.

You can buy a small external disk should you want more SSD. But you are also stuck with the one port or have to remember to carry that £60 adapter with you everywhere.

Also, and this is just personal choice, the keyboard is fine for casual use, but don't expect to use it long term, you'll need an external keyboard. 

Yes, it's thin and very light. But that's because they took everything you use out of it.

Try one out before you make the switch, but I'm not convinced it is the workhorse of today. 

If you are worried about weight get the smaller MBP.

> On Jul 18, 2016, at 11:54 PM, Sasha Gerrand <chat-lists.lrug.org at sgerrand.com> wrote:
> 
> Andi,
> 
> You know my take on this. ;)
> 
> I think a MacBook Air is fine for Ruby and Docker based development, so long as you fill it to the brim with RAM and SSDs. (Docker for Mac significantly reduces the resource requirements of Docker.) Retina screens are nice though.
> 
> I guess it comes down to how much weight you want to carry around.
> 
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