Re: Looking to purchase used Mac for software development

[Jim Goodin <jimgoodinmusic@gmail.com>]

Chris for using the more recent Xcode assuming you're going to work in
that for either OS X or iOS code, you're going to need a 64bit mac.  I
recently had to upg for that reason.  I got a really clean late 2009
early 2010 MBP 15inch with 8gig ram for 600 on ebay.  I was finding I
needed to spend btw 4 and 6.  Below that you will prob run in to hw
probs to fix.  I had been using a first gen MBP 17 inch which has been
great and still is for my music needs I just hit a wall with the
directions I'm going in dev.  Glad you are crossing over a bit :)

Jim

On 4/7/13, TripleOhNine <3x09@carlsonarts.com> wrote:
> I have had pretty good luck finding systems on Craigslist, but always do 
> all
> of your business in a public place anonymously if you can.  also, it's
> generally worth it if you can find a mac with some applecare warranty 
> left
> on it in case something goes wrong.
>
> Michael
> On Apr 7, 2013, at 10:33 AM, cpr@musetrap.com wrote:
>
>> Turns out my Mac Mini is toooo old to be useful for software development
>> (ie. I can't install the latest software on it). Does anyone have a Mac
>> (mini or otherwise) that they would like to part with for $300 or less?
>> It's only job is to be a development machine, so the ability to use the
>> latest os/xcode trumps performance. I'm going to start looking on
>> ebay/etc, but thought I would check here first. :)
>>
>> peace
>> -cpr
>>
>>
>
>

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