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by taude
4618 days ago
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I had tons of issues trying to get Postgres to work on my Mac. Lots of other conflicts, too. I think the Mountain Lion OS upgrade fried my host dev environment, too. Eventually, I went the VM route....afterall, you're going to eventually deploy to a Linux box anyway, and there's enough differences that you'll feel the pain when you go to deploy. And now, I don't have a polluted host OS with tons of versions of software. I can easily try out new technologies, kill the VM, and start over. Keeping VMs for different projects in their on silo'd around is really convenient. Switching OSes or upgrading, rebuilding a computer, etc. I don't loose these configurations. The list goes on and one. RAM is cheap. I think I paid $100 to upgrade my Mac Book Pro to 16 GB. I can also switch back to a host Windows machine and take my VMs with me (should the need arise) |
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RAM was cheap. Prices have went up a lot. Most DDR3 prices have almost doubled since this past spring/winter. 16GB laptop kits are ~ $140 when they were $75 a few months back. Still relatively cheap, though.
Not to mention Apple only makes 1 laptop that you can add your own RAM to nowadays (13" MBP). It's $200 to go up to 16GB on a Retina.