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I'm in the market looking for a new laptop that would be smaller than 15" and is geared towards development above anything else. Lightweight and fast is the key.
My IDE of choice right now is Visual Studio 2012 and I don't plan on doing any gaming on it. Anywhere Any suggestions?
Of course, it was a lot more than $1000.
macbook air 11 inch.
Right now, because I'm spending a lot of time flying across the continent, my dev laptop is a maxed out 11" MBA. It's a little light on RAM (only 8GB) and the screen, while a decent PPI, is too small. But I plug it into a Thunderbolt display and bam, it's plenty enough for day to day work. Of course, it was a lot more than $1000.
It definitely seems like the macbook air is the go-to lightweight development machine these days.
Right now, because I'm spending a lot of time flying across the continent, my dev laptop is a maxed out 11" MBA. It's a little light on RAM (only 8GB) and the screen, while a decent PPI, is too small. But I plug it into a Thunderbolt display and bam, it's plenty enough for day to day work. Of course, it was a lot more than $1000.
A macbook air sounds great, but I am concerned with the screen-size as well. I would definitely need more than 11" as I wouldn't be using an LCD monitor 95% of the time. It definitely seems like the macbook air is the go-to lightweight development machine these days.
Right now, because I'm spending a lot of time flying across the continent, my dev laptop is a maxed out 11" MBA. It's a little light on RAM (only 8GB) and the screen, while a decent PPI, is too small. But I plug it into a Thunderbolt display and bam, it's plenty enough for day to day work. Of course, it was a lot more than $1000.
A macbook air sounds great, but I am concerned with the screen-size as well. I would definitely need more than 11" as I wouldn't be using an LCD monitor 95% of the time. It definitely seems like the macbook air is the go-to lightweight development machine these days.
I work primarily from my 13.3" screen in a wide variety of IDEs, you get used to it.
macbook air 11 inch.
Yeah, I've considered a macbook air. It's definitely in my top choices. It's been so long since I've looked at laptops, but surely there are cheaper options with similar hardware right?
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Yeah, I've considered a macbook air. It's definitely in my top choices. It's been so long since I've looked at laptops, but surely there are cheaper options with similar hardware right?
Keep in mind that with these custom designed laptops, price is determined by volume, and by logistics, and Apple sells a lot more of these class of machines, and has by far the best logistics -- you're not going to be able to get much cheaper than Apple in the same class of machine any longer.
macbook air 11 inch.
Yeah, I've considered a macbook air. It's definitely in my top choices. It's been so long since I've looked at laptops, but surely there are cheaper options with similar hardware right?