[mgkimsal]

<$1000 mac for even moderate development use cases? your bias is showing now.

[jclardy]

The $500 Mac mini can handle Xcode just fine, and that is a many year old machine that hasn't been updated. Maybe not if you've been spoiled on better hardware, but it performs adequately.

[cache_miss]

I used my personal $500 mac mini for full-time desktop and webapp development when employed at Citrix. This excludes the cost of peripherals, of course.

[rsynnott]

MacBook Air and Mini should be fine for most stuff, certainly for glorified web apps.

[OtterCoder]

Exactly. I write the main code on my Linux machine, then switch to the MacMini for testing and UI finalization.

[evilduck]

We're talking about a Cordova-wrapped SPA. You can develop those on Raspberry Pis if you had to. A 9 year old $250 MBP off ebay will absolutely suffice.

[rolha-capoeira]

Yes, even for moderate development use cases. I've never had any problems.

[zghst]

I bought a 2013 Macbook Pro for $700. Retina Display. Where there's a will, there's a way.