Hi there!
I’m in the preparation stage for my journey to iPhone games development and I know absolutely nothing about Macs, except the fact they cost twice as much as PC laptops because of the Apple logo.
I need to buy a Macbook for my Unit3D development, but I don’t want to buy the most expensive ones as it won’t be my main computer for sure.
Can you give me some advice which model would be not most expensive, but the comfort of developing iPhone games on it is good using Unit3D?
Regards.
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I just specced out a Lenova Thinkpad with similar features to that of Apple’s lowliest Macbook, and you save a whopping $15 by not buying an Apple.
I think Apple’s hardware (which is thinner and lighter), their OS, and bundled software are probably worth $15.
The cheapest one will get the job done, especially if you have another machine for 3D work.
I use the cheapest Apple Macbook (the $999 one, not the Macbook Pro). And I have zero problems running Unity, Modo, Photoshop, 3DCoat, ZBrush, etc. MAX out the RAM though!
I went for the 13inch MacBook Pro with 8Gb ram. I also run Parallels so I get the “best of both worlds” (sort of). Zero problems (yet to migrate to 3f1 but 3b7 is fine).
As my main dev machine is Windows I didn’t need the same screen real estate on the MacBook - but it’s good enough.