Selecting a Mac for development (original) (raw)

Eric Richardson ekrichardson at gmail.com
Tue Jul 16 15:36:29 PDT 2013

Hi Doug,

Yes the MacBook Pro Retina and the Air models are fixed at purchase according to person at the Apple store I talked to. Not sure on the others.

I went ahead and got 15 inch retina because that one comes with 16GB memory and 512GB SSD - I think this is plenty of power to get a useful life out of the machine. It is definitely pricey.

I'm replacing an old iMac which I certainly got my money out of so I'm hopeful this will be similar experience.

BTW, thank-you for all the people working to make the Mac a great Java platform. It is very popular for developers for all the JVM targeted platforms at a minimum.

Eric

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Doug Zwick <Doug.Zwick at blackboard.com>wrote:

Michael Hall wrote:

> On Jul 15, 2013, at 4:46 PM, Gregg Wonderly wrote: > >> I upgraded mine to 8 GB and it does better! > > I think writing to a smaller screen on a machine with less memory is better. Then think how much better it'll run on the others. IIRC, some of the current MacBook Pro models have their memory spec fixed at manufacture -- it is not possible to add memory later. I presume this is because the memory is not socketed, but mounted directly on the main logic board. Check the specs before ordering, otherwise you may limit the usable life of it (at least as a development machine). This email and any attachments may contain confidential and proprietary information of Blackboard that is for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, re-distribution or other use of any of this information is strictly prohibited. Please immediately notify the sender and delete this transmission if you received this email in error.

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