Which Macbook? Please Help

[nomac]

Hi,

I am a complete noob in macbooks. But I want to buy one for my brother. He wants to develop apps. Could you help me choose the cheapest one where he can do this? I know there are some older versions available also. Should I go for any of those?

thanks a lot for your help!!!

 

[heisenberg123]

Hi,

I am a complete noob in macbooks. But I want to buy one for my brother. He wants to develop apps. Could you help me choose the cheapest one where he can do this? I know there are some older versions available also. Should I go for any of those?

thanks a lot for your help!!!

yes buying a 2011 model from the refurbished sections is a great option to save money and the mac will still be plenty powerfull to develop apps

i would recomend the early or late 2011 15" model

 

[nomac]

hi iisforiphone,

thanks a lot for your reply

 

[Dark Void]

You could get an entry level MBP.

 

[Glockron]

For development, I'd go for the newest 13" Air. It's a little more expensive than refurbs, but you get a fast SSD for booting, opening and closing of apps. Just makes it snappier. Most importantly the screen "seems" to have less glare, and has a higher resolution - which is important for coding or developing. You need as much screen space as possibe

 

[chriscl]

The base-level 13" MBP (mid-2012 model) would be fine for Development use.

You can upgrade the RAM later yourself (cheaper than doing it from Apple) and even swap in a bigger hard disk or an SSD (Solid-State Disk) if you need to, so there is an amount of future-proofing there.

 

[nomac]

You could get an entry level MBP.

For development, I'd go for the newest 13" Air. It's a little more expensive than refurbs, but you get a fast SSD for booting, opening and closing of apps. Just makes it snappier. Most importantly the screen "seems" to have less glare, and has a higher resolution - which is important for coding or developing. You need as much screen space as possibe

The base-level 13" MBP (mid-2012 model) would be fine for Development use.

You can upgrade the RAM later yourself (cheaper than doing it from Apple) and even swap in a bigger hard disk or an SSD (Solid-State Disk) if you need to, so there is an amount of future-proofing there.

thanks for all the input. I'll go with the base level macbook pro