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Will a MacBook Air have enough horsepower for occasional development in Ruby? Objective C? Cocoa?
Are there any other major limitations with doing this?
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Yes, the Macbook air can handle Programming, Android, iOs, and Python, however some of the smartphone OS can require a lot of the available resources the Macbook air allows during a session.
The best Mac laptop for most people is the 13-inch MacBook Air with Apple's M1 processor. It's more than fast enough for browsing, working on documents, and making light photo and video edits, and it has an excellent high-resolution screen, a great trackpad, a totally silent fanless design, and a reasonable price.
Apple's large MacBook Pro 16-inch is the best laptop for programming money can buy right now. Replacing the Intel-powered model from 2019, the MacBook Pro 16-inch (2021) comes with a choice of Apple's powerful M1 Pro or M1 Max chips, and these make short work of compiling and running even the most complex code.
You're in good company: Wil Shipley (creator of Delicious Monster and other famous Mac software) uses his MacBook Air for dev (cite). His first-gen with SSD was faster than the MacBook Pro he was using previously.
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