MacBook for iPhone dev?

[dBC]

Hello,

I'm a complete mac idiot, but I've got an idea for an iPhone app I would like to write, and I'm looking for a good Mac to develop with. I'm thinking the white unibody MacBook would be a good fit. If I get it, I would probably retire my windows laptop, and run Win7 on the Mac. I don't (initially) see myself doing much on the Mac partition except iPhone development.

Would this be a good machine for what I want to do?

 

[RITZFit]

any recent mac should be fine for what you've described.

 

[pcs are junk]

first, you're going to have to spend over $1,000 on a mac. second, you need to learn how to program objective c, and cocoa, and how to use xcode, etc. third, you need to pay apple $100 just to submit your app, and you have to hope that they approve it. so is it really worth it? hell yeah foo!

 

[dBC]

well, I bought the MacBook today. Right now I'm in the middle of the 2.5GB iPhone SDK download.

Any tips to get it all working?

 

[vistadude]

Make sure you make a shared FAT32 partition to share data between Mac and Windows.

 

[pcs are junk]

get a book on objective c and cocoa.

 

[KnightWRX]

first, you're going to have to spend over $1,000 on a mac.

Or you could spend half of that on a Mac. The Mac Mini can run Xcode just fine (about any computer built after 1990 can run a text editor and compiler).

 

[pcs are junk]

Or you could spend half of that on a Mac. The Mac Mini can run Xcode just fine (about any computer built after 1990 can run a text editor and compiler).

but then u need to buy a monitor, and the look on the non-apple monitors look like crap. also, u can take your laptop with u, u cant do that with a desktop.