I learned to program on the good old reliable Apple IIe □ I love my Mac for development (other than its inadequate memory). My customers are an even mixture of OS X, Linux and Windows and so I need to run lots of VMs to run the various tests. Like many people here I do enterprise software development and have a real need to work in multiple operating system environments. I've got two running right now and out of my 8Gb of RAM I have 0.5Gb free! So 16Gb is really a must for me, and I suspect, others like me. One you get a VM loaded up with Visual Studio and the various server products you need in there you are looking at 2Gb of memory per VM as a workable minimum. Apple have caught up on CPU but the 8Gb RAM limit is now a real contraint for some usage scenarios. ![]() Then they started to get left behind as other manufacturers started sticking Quad-Core i7's in their laptops. Plus by using an MBP with VM's I could also dabble in Mac and iOS development. ![]() ![]() Granted these are not going to be Apple's biggest market segment but I can assure you there are plenty of them out there being used for Windows development via VM's or Boot Camp - I know plenty, even some guys within Microsoft use MBP's because they make bloody good development machines.Īt the time I bought mine there was nothing on the market that could compete for power, weight, battery life etc.
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