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by benologist 4580 days ago
I've developed on a 2011 MBA running Windows + SQL Server + Visual Studio etc in a virtual machine which is a heavy combination. The only real drawback is virtual machines don't have many cores to share which may or may not matter. With Mavericks my MBA is screaming fast although it's always felt very fast.

I've worked on Haxe, Android, Xcode, NodeJS, .NET, Unity3d and Flash, along with accompanying software like Photoshop and Fireworks, and backend stuff like Postgres, MongoDB, Redis etc. A lot of this was simultaneously since my old startup provided APIs for a bunch of different platforms.
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frapbot 4580 days ago
On a 128GB internal SSD?
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benologist 4580 days ago
256gb, 4gb of ram, dual core i7.

Virtual machines and Android SDKs use a lot of space but I believe the 2013 has usb3 which means an external drive will be very fast.

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