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by lakechfoma 2928 days ago
Ah that's pretty encouraging. I see an $809 model right now from 2015 with 8GB/128GB which is all I need for my current day-to-day.

I'm not even sure how iOS development works yet, but you think the <2 GHz processor is fine with the whole toolset? Any complaints at all? Like any CPU intensive aspects that get bogged down
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martin-adams 2928 days ago
The CPU is ok, not brilliant but works. I agree with the sibling comment that the 128GB will be a squeeze. For me RAM and storage (SSD) are most important.

I've also used VirtualBox a lot on this little thing and played in the iOS simulator (mainly to reproduce web bugs).

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sjm-lbm 2928 days ago
I'd worry a bit about the 128GB SSD if you are getting this for iOS development. My Mac is at home (so I can't check) but the current version of xCode + iOS simulators/dev tools is in the tens of GBs (40 or so GB, IIRC).

I honestly think macOS + xCode + Office is really close to 128GB by itself, but I am going from memory here.

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