On 14/09/2009, at 5:53 AM, Michael Rogers wrote:
I am leaning towards iMacs, because these computers will serve as ambassadors as well as development machines; I want to double-check that if we have to go to Mac Minis, say with 4 GB of RAM, we won't be waiting forever to compile a simple program.
iMac will probably be a better development machine than a Mini. RAM aside, the graphics processor makes a big difference to real-world performance.
Compile time wise, don't worry about it. While compilation seems to have actually got slower over the years (though apps much more complex), consider that back in the day we had to compile applications on 20MHz machines (or even less - my first Mac had 8 MHz to compile Turbo Pascal apps) and it was perfectly feasible. A 2GHz+ dual-core processor is barely ticking over on compilation work.
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