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With my new job I spend a total of almost 2 hours a day travelling to and from work by train.
The obvious downside of this is that I lose 2 hours of the day which I could otherwise use.
I am trying to get back in to programming with a long term view to doing some OS X and iOS development but find that I simply run out of day at the moment. That's when I though to myself "ah ha! Why not use the time on the train!" so I am contemplating the purchase of a laptop in the near future that I can do some work on while travelling to and from work. Specifically I'm thinking a Macbook Air as it is small and light but I wonder if the small screen would restrict its usefulness for development.
Are there any coders out there with experiece in using a 13" screen on a laptop for development that would be able to give me some feedback on how viable it is.
Cheers
Jamie
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Macbook Air As A Development Machine
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Posted 19 January 2012 - 11:45 AM
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Posted 19 January 2012 - 11:56 AM
Hi Jamie
I haven't done it for a while but I used to code on a 13" MacBook in my last job while enjoying a 40 minute train ride each way.
Not a great machine for bug and error detection work, but decent enough for bashing out code to be checked on your desktop later...
I haven't done it for a while but I used to code on a 13" MacBook in my last job while enjoying a 40 minute train ride each way.
Not a great machine for bug and error detection work, but decent enough for bashing out code to be checked on your desktop later...
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Posted 19 January 2012 - 12:21 PM
Hey Jamie
I just had a chat to Nugie, and he was saying that a mate of his coded The Age website on a 13in Air, and loved it.
Nugie himself says he'll be getting one – but he's waiting for the 15in model.
Cheers!
Dave
I just had a chat to Nugie, and he was saying that a mate of his coded The Age website on a 13in Air, and loved it.
Nugie himself says he'll be getting one – but he's waiting for the 15in model.
Cheers!
Dave
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Posted 19 January 2012 - 12:35 PM
Yeah a 15" Air would be nice. Hopefully we'll see one this year at the right time for me to think about buying one.
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