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snisnik
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Hello people.. i'm wondering to start developing games for ipod/iphone with cocos2d.. someone can help me with this little problem i have here??
I'm going to buy a used mac mini (in my country new ones are kind of expensives)... and i saw this one and i don't know if it will work ok...
Mac Mini G4 - 1.25 Ghz - OSX 10.5.8 - 1 Gb de Ram - HD de 40 gb.
What do u think?
Thnxs!!
Santi
Joethemonkey101
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Looks pretty light. 40GB won't be that much. I have a 09 MBP and I'm using 80+GB. 1GB of ram is ok, but 1.25ghz also might be a little light.
Just my opinion
That machine will NOT work for iOS development. The current version of XCode requires the Snow Leopard OS, and you must have an Intel-based Mac to run it. Also, the Mac Mini G4 was only made during 2005, so it's an antique by today's standards.
(I have a Mac Mini G4 around here somewhere - even if it could support Snow Leopard, it's SLOW)
snisnik Any intel mac will work just fine that can support Snow Leopard. Xcode doesn't particularly take much of a CPU/Ram to run decent.
You can always try the hackintosh route for a while if you're just getting started and have the right hardware in your existing PC.
-Robert
Robert Payne, u think with Mac Mini 1.83 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo + 2gb De Ram i can run Snow Leopard??
I have that exact spec in my mac mini (bought off a forum member here actually) and it runs flawlessly. I also just bought a second hand Macbook Core Duo with only 1.25GB RAM and that also works just fine.
As mentioned above, you need to make sure you have an Intel processor based Mac, at least 1GB RAM and Snow Leopard in order to be able to program for iOS.
For pure development - perfect. But if you need to use Photoshop from time to time you won't have much fun... but this might be a software and not a hardware problem...
Or if you want to record demo videos of your game (e.g. with SimCap) it might also be a bit too slow.
I would not recommend trying hackintosh since you end up in searching for device drivers and patching things if they don't fit. Every singe update leaves you with the big question: Will it work after this?
Yeah I actually started off with a VM of Snow leopard. Decided I really liked it, so grabbed a Mac. As Andreas says, its a pain to keep up to date. Took me a good week or so to get my base image working well. Then you never know when an update is going to mess it all up again.
With a lower-end Mac, yes, Photoshop & more intensive graphics can be troublesome. I develop on a 1st gen Macbook Air, which isn't exactly a powerhouse. Works great for XCode work.
For graphics work, I fall back to my Windows PC, since 1) I already had decent tools before I got the Mac, and 2) it's a pretty robust machine, and can handle the excessive load graphics can put on it.
So even though you need a Mac to use XCode, that doesn't mean you can't use other machines to do the heavy lifting of graphics and audio development, and then move the finished assets to the Mac.
Hello, I didn't want to create a new post for this same topic.
Is a mac mini with this specs enough for developing with cocos2d and running inkscape, considering ios 10.7 is coming out soon and I may need to update.
- Mac OS X Snow Leopard versión 10.6.4
- Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz
- 2GB RAM
- Hard drive 120GB SATA
I'm going to start my first game project for ipad on cocos2d but i don't want to spend to much money getting a mac.
My other option is getting a updated PC (i7 920, 6 gb of ram, ati 6850) and installing mac os via hackintosh, or using VMWare, but i don't know how safe and time consuming may this be.
I guess my last option is getting the last mac mini model, but would cost me twice of the one i posted before.
For pure iOS development, I would certainly go for the mac. PCs and windows really is a pain, even when they try to me macs.
I do mixed development, and uses Parallels Desktop when I have to launch the OS of pure evil. Works okay without being stellar. My guess would be, that the other way around is worse.
MacMini is enough, but you definitly want more RAM. I had the 1.83GHz + 1GB Ram und that was painfully slow. I bought 4GB and build them in myself and now it runs ok while having Firefox + XCode(my 8 year old Gentoo Linux machine responses better, Mac OSX is incredible slow generally)). Try to get a old version with 1 GB built in and buy the 4GB kit yourself, you will a lot of money compared to buying a "new" one where nothing important for iOS development has changed.
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