I need a portable Mac for iPhone / iPad development. I bought and am using a 15″ MBP matte display right now. It cost $2400 and is hard on my eyes because the resolution is 1680 x 1050. I’m thinking of returning it and getting a different laptop, but which one? My usage pattern is that I see myself shuttling this computer to and from work while spending about 70% of my time developing with this connected to a monitor, etc. However, for that 30% of the time I want to comfortably be able to use emacs in a terminal and run XCode to compile changes to my iPhone application and try them out.
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I find Xcode 3.2 is perfectly usable on a 13″ macbook, with condensed mode and ungrouped editor Windows. However the iPad simulator doesn’t fit on the screen. I would imagine that “bigger is better” might soon become the rule.