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by jokoon 4428 days ago
I still wonder, how well is windows 7 or windows 8.1 supported ?

how fast does xcode runs on it ?

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Windows is supported. I imagine Xcode is almost completely unusable with that CPU and the tiny amount of RAM.
I use XCode on the previous generation, it's fine. Interface Builder bogs down on large Storyboard situations but aside from that it more than happily runs XCode, Photoshop, Simulator and all the usual expected tools (iTerm 2, Chrome, Sublime, Spotify/iTunes/whatever music player) without much complaining.
Is Xcode so much resource hungry? VS runs nicely on that spec, and I thought VS was the hungriest ide ever