MacBook for web and iOS development?

eternal20002013-10-17 14:44:46

macbook

eternal2000, 2013-10-17 14:44:46

Actually I'm thinking about buying Air 13 "2013, but I'm afraid that its power reserve will not be enough. In the new Air, unlike the MacBook Pro, less heat, noise and higher resolution are captivating (most likely I will use it without a monitor).
In addition, I don’t know which one model to take: with 4Gb or 8Gb It is clear that with 8Gb it will be better, but these 8Gb (namely + 4Gb) will cost me -300$ (used in excellent condition with 4GB 900$, new with 8Gb 1200$ ) from your pocket. Accordingly, the question arises: Is it rational?
What can you say about this?
The following apps will be used most often:
Google Chrome (20-40 tabs)
Sublime Text 3
iTunes
Adobe Photoshop CS6
XCode
Terminal
Skype
iMessage
Tweetbot
as well as services like Dropbox

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11 answer(s)

rakot, 2013-10-17
@rakot

For me, chrome with 20-40 tabs can eat up all the memory, in general, you need 16 gigs for your requirements, otherwise you will go to swap, but with ssd it is already so noticeable.

jetman, 2013-10-17
@jetman

Only 8Gb! It's a laptop for work. The more comfortable you work on it, the better for you and your mental/emotional/other state.

Sergei Borisov, 2013-10-17
@risik

For xcode exactly 8GB. You can work on 4. But without thunderbird, chrome, skype etc

p1ayer, 2013-10-17
@p1ayer

if the shop does not pick giga raws, then you will have enough of it for your eyes

kenny_opennix, 2013-10-17
@kenny_opennix

At the very air 13, 4 gigs of RAM, everything works fine,
market.yandex.ru/model.xml?modelid=10393012&hid=91013
Even on an old Mac with Corduo and 4 gigs, I managed to work comfortably in xcode and pycharm, with Photoshop it’s harder but bearable .

hybridcattt, 2013-10-17
@hybridcattt

For Xcode, 8 gigs is better.
Although it seems like Xcode5 on Mavericks no longer eats so much RAM, but I would make sure.
I think photoshop has the same problem.
I have a Macbook Pro 13" mid 2010 8gb, I have to restart Xcode every few days.

rozhik, 2013-10-17
@rozhik

Google Chrome (20-40 tabs) < - only it will eat more than 4 gigs on modern sites. X-code is also voracious.
So 4GB is not enough.

p1ayer, 2013-10-17
@p1ayer

even 4 gigs, but 8 is better

Alexey Akulovich, 2013-10-17
@AterCattus

On my Yoga13 (a machine similar to Air13Mid in hardware) on Linux, the use cases are: PhpStorm / PyCharm, Eclipse / AndroidStudio with several emulators, sometimes 1-2 virtual machines with Windows. To this, all sorts of Chrome, Skype and other small things.
And there were no problems with power even close. But immediately take 8G.

Vladimir Korshunov, 2013-10-17
@BekoBou

4 Gb is not enough, you need to take 8 Gb. At the time of writing the comment, 7 Gb is being used. WebDev, CS5 and a bit of C/C++/Objective-C - a set of applications similar to yours, only browsers, editors and other Mail.app... more in general :)
PS It's better to use iTerm instead of Terminal.

gleb_kudr, 2013-10-18
@gleb_kudr

XCode + Chrome + Photoshop is at least 8 GB, and 16 is better (from my own experience). I would not take air for such tasks, but I would take a flash, even if it was used. Makos is very chewy to the RAM.