AIR for Web Development Work

[tortex]

Hello.

I've been suing a 15" MBP for 3 years, but it's so damn heavy and I can no longer be arsed to hurt my back by carrying it. I need a MBA fairly quick, so was wondering if the stock 13" 1.3 with 4gb RAM will be enough, realistically, for web and iOS dev? I run XCode 5, Coda, Sublime text but also Photoshop and Illustrator. It'll not be used for anything other than dev, no gaming or large music collections etc.

I'd order a custom one online but they just told me it'd take 3-4 weeks.

Cheers.

 

[c1phr]

Honestly, you might be kicking yourself later if you don't get the 8GB RAM upgrade. That's the only thing that I could see that workflow demanding very quickly.

 

[barrk]

I'd go with 8 gb

 

[Spoonz]

As others have said, it's in many ways foolish to not get the 8GB upgrade - considering buying the 4GB model means you're stuck with that amount until you buy another complete machine.

That said, I've had my MBA for just over a year and use it for exactly the same purpose as you intend to. 4GB RAM stands up just fine, but who knows how for how long...

 

[mslide]

An Air is enough for that. Definitely go for 8GB RAM especially since you said you do web development. Thus, I assume you'll want to be running a Windows VM from time to time to test things with Internet Explorer.

 

[tortex]

test things with Internet Explorer.

Nah, that lovely job goes elsewhere.

Called Apple again, they now say 4-5 days so I have one on the way, fully upgraded apart from the SSD, 256 is fine as I use the cloud for a lot of stuff.

 

[sick z33]

8GB would be a must!