Mac for iPhone dev

Siliconslave · 25 Mar 2009 at 11:34

So guys i need a cheap second hand intel mac for iPhone development as its looking less and less likely that a VM is going to cut it full time

Doesn't matter if its a laptop or desktop but whats the cheapest one i can pick up second hand? Being able to upgrade the memory (if not already high) is always a boon... HDD isn't too much of a problem as i'll be useing my NAS

so which ones should i be looking at?

Cheers
Sam

Will_3rd · 25 Mar 2009 at 11:45

Mac Mini or a Macbook would be the cheapest to pick up, depending on the model you should be able to stick between 2-4GBs of RAM in them.

Siliconslave · 25 Mar 2009 at 11:57

is it only the latest revision of the mini that will run 10.5.5? am i right in thinking that only came out in the last couple of months...

rp2000 · 25 Mar 2009 at 12:16

Siliconslave said:
is it only the latest revision of the mini that will run 10.5.5? am i right in thinking that only came out in the last couple of months...

All the mac-minis will run all versions of Leopard. But best to get one made in the last few years that has Intel based architecture tbh.

rp2000

Siliconslave · 25 Mar 2009 at 12:21

rp2000 said:
All the mac-minis will run all versions of Leopard. But best to get one made in the last few years that has Intel based architecture tbh.

rp2000

the iPhone SDK needs the Intel architecture to run unfortunately as theres no cross compiler (yet)

which version of the macbook started using the intel chipset btw?

FreeStream · 25 Mar 2009 at 12:27

All of them do

iBook/Powerbook = PPC
Macbooks = Intel

fez · 25 Mar 2009 at 12:32

I think that is was the core duo model from 2006 maybe. Dont quote me on that though.

Spyhop · 25 Mar 2009 at 17:08

Yes, the original MacBook was Intel Core Duo (32bit)