Re: success installing new WO dev platform

2014-02-06 Thread Ray Kiddy
On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 15:09:08 +1000 Quinton Dolan wrote: > > On 5 Feb 2014, at 8:29 am, r...@ganymede.org wrote: > > > > > Well, it was nice to see that installing and using WO and Wonder on > > non-Apple hardware is just fairly easy and just works, as it > > should. Now, back to work. > > And

Re: success installing new WO dev platform

2014-02-05 Thread Musall Maik
Am 04.02.2014 um 23:29 schrieb r...@ganymede.org: > I want computation power and disk space. Apparently this is too much to ask > of Apple. Smallish hard disks and not really enough RAM and who the heck > thinks soldering that RAM to the board is a good idea? Really! And at the > store I could

Re: success installing new WO dev platform

2014-02-05 Thread Timothy Worman
+1 My RMBP is definitely, far and away, the best laptop I’ve ever had. 500GB SSD, 16GB RAM. The retina display is actually an afterthought. Even that comes in handy to realize when some of my web resources are too low-rez for the age. The SSD though is everything. Everything happens in an insta

Re: success installing new WO dev platform

2014-02-05 Thread Theodore Petrosky
Funny you should mention that SSD. I had a few of those 2012 Mac Book Pros. They were sluggish. But I just opened it up, put in an SSD (from other world computing [OWC]) and it was like a new machine. I couldn't believe how snappy it was. So Ray, if you still have that old machine, put an SSD

Re: success installing new WO dev platform

2014-02-04 Thread Quinton Dolan
On 5 Feb 2014, at 8:29 am, r...@ganymede.org wrote: > > Well, it was nice to see that installing and using WO and Wonder on non-Apple > hardware is just fairly easy and just works, as it should. Now, back to work. And in violation of the WO license agreement if you use it for development. Q.

Re: success installing new WO dev platform

2014-02-04 Thread Ken Anderson
Sorry you feel that way Ray! I am typing this on my late 2013 MBP and I love it! 500GB of solid state disk is enough for me - and the performance is awesome. I felt the same way about the retina display, but I’ve come to really appreciate it, if only when I’m traveling and not in front of my