I know this has been asked to death but I suck at forum searching and google searching has led me to confusion and headaches. I'm getting ready to make the plung into programming for the iPhone and well I guess the soon to be ipad. I want either a mb or the mbp but when I look it's so hard for me to tell the two apart from specs. Might be that the last apple I owned was about 10 years ago. I also would like something I could run world of Warcraft on to play with my kid, instead of having to get another desktop or laptop (PC). Oh and I'm looking at both of the 13" models. Would lime a 15 but wife says some crap about budget this and that. I don't know I try not to pay her to much attention it just causes headaches trying to understand her ;p
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iOS Mbp or mb for iPhone programming and WOW
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If there's a Microcenter near you ( https://www.microcenter.com/at_the_stores/index.html ) you can pick up a MB for $800 right now. I'm walking out the door right now to get mine 
The Macbook and 13" Macbook pro are almost identical, except one has a backlit keyboard, and is silver.
Well I went to the apple store and got the basic mb. I get a discount for gov work and opted for the 4gb memory for a total pre tax of 999. A few things to get used to. I know about the books to read but if anyone would like to put in their 2 cents on programming for the iPhone please feel free to say something.
I'm in a similar boat; got my new MB this weekend, and am currently plugging through Programming in Objective C 2.0 by Stephen Kochan. Pretty good book overall, though I've run into a few problems since his book was written before Snow Leopard (xcode changed slightly). Been able to work through them all, it's nothing significant, just slight speedbumps
Been able to work through them all, it's nothing significant, just slight speedbumps
Being able to "work though speedbumps" is an essential part of learning to be a good programmer in the real world.
I've run into a few problems since his book was written before Snow Leopard (xcode changed slightly). Been able to work through them all, it's nothing significant, just slight speedbumps
Make sure you go to the forum for the book at classroomM.com/objective-c. There's a topic there about the (minor) changes in the book with Xcode 3.2.
Cheers,
Steve Kochan
That's ironic because I used to be a programmer (mostly C#, some C++ or Java when dealing with legacy or external apps) in the real world
. I migrated over to being a Database Architect this last summer; I was at the point where I'd get home and not want to even help a friend with his coding projects, let alone work on any of my own. Doing it for a living killed any joy I got out of it.So, now I'm cruising through Kochan's book, trying to wrap my head around some of Objective C's oddities, with the long term goal of trying to write a few iTouch/iPhone apps mostly for personal use.
And Thanks Skochan, I'll have to check that out next time I run into an issue. Great book so far though
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I've had a MBP since August of last year and it runs WOW with no problems other than the lag issues that Blizzard creates.
Just for the hell of it I loaded wow up on it. Min res settings in dal and I get 40-50 fps where on wives toshiba I'm lucky to run 15fps and let's not talk about out of cities I can turn res to max and still run 70-90 fps and holy cow does it look good.