<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000099">Note that a MacBook is not the same as an Air. The former has a 1.1GHz Core M processor and the Air has a 2.7GHz Core i5/i7. They have pretty different performance characteristics. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000099"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000099">Neither model will take more than 8GB which is another consideration versus the 16GB possible with the MB Pro.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000099"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000099">Definitely worth getting your hands on whatever you are interested in and seeing if it meets your needs!<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Sasha Gerrand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chat-lists.lrug.org@sgerrand.com" target="_blank">chat-lists.lrug.org@sgerrand.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Andi,</p>
<p dir="ltr">You know my take on this. ;)</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I guess it comes down to how much weight you want to carry around.</p>
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