Hiya! I'm a developer, and I am doing both Android, regular java, and iPhone. I currently use a MBP17, the last of the pre-unibody ones (which you see in movies like crazy it seems like). Its 2.5GHz/4Gb/320Gb high-rez.
I'm looking for basically what it comes down is "more mobile invulnerability"...that is, I don't NEED a macbook air, but I have a service (time and temperature phone device, the forecast section) I need to support and this whole thought process got started with "get a netbook and carry it around"...but I'd like to remain in the sanity bubble of "I only have one machine".
So, I'm considering the ultimate 13" + 27" ACD combo.
Are any developers running anything like this mix:
- Eclipse or XCode (but not both)
- Firefox
- Safari at same time when doing iPhone dev
- Terminal
- TextEdit
- Mail / Skype / iTunes
Just wondering if that combo is working both in terms of memory/swap, and also in terms of "I'm in some cafe and have to do a little debug, and a one-line fix" type of scenario.
Thanks MR!
G.
I'm looking for basically what it comes down is "more mobile invulnerability"...that is, I don't NEED a macbook air, but I have a service (time and temperature phone device, the forecast section) I need to support and this whole thought process got started with "get a netbook and carry it around"...but I'd like to remain in the sanity bubble of "I only have one machine".
So, I'm considering the ultimate 13" + 27" ACD combo.
Are any developers running anything like this mix:
- Eclipse or XCode (but not both)
- Firefox
- Safari at same time when doing iPhone dev
- Terminal
- TextEdit
- Mail / Skype / iTunes
Just wondering if that combo is working both in terms of memory/swap, and also in terms of "I'm in some cafe and have to do a little debug, and a one-line fix" type of scenario.
Thanks MR!
G.