Will a MacBook Air have enough horsepower for occasional development in Ruby? Objective C? Cocoa?
Are there any other major limitations with doing this?
Notes:
- I hook it up to a large Monitor.
- I would be hoping to use standard mainstream Mac IDEs.
- I know a MacBook or Pro would be more appropriate but they are simply not as cool.
- This machine will mainly be used for web etc, very much a household appliance.
- And you guessed it – I am an ignorant windows developer 🙂
You’re in good company: Wil Shipley (creator of Delicious Monster and other famous Mac software) uses his MacBook Air for dev (cite). His first-gen with SSD was faster than the MacBook Pro he was using previously.