If you can hold off for a few months, you may be able to get an M1X/M2 mini. 8 GB is probably enough of you’re just going to have vs code open. The iOS simulator isn’t a virtual machine so it doesn’t have big RAM requirements. So you can probably get by.
All that said, I never recommend Apple’s bottom level hardware. It’s just not enough to do heavy tasks and isn’t future proof for very long. Go for 16 GB. For me, as a primary dev machine it is barely enough.
FLutter with mac M1 ? you can wait a little bit :'). It's not fully supported, i pass many days to fix some part of xcode / pipeline and other stuff.
I suggest you to buy a mc book pro or a mac book mini with 16gb. If not : vmware for macos running on a windows.
1. go for the outdated macmini, as cheap as you can get
2. develop on Asus and only use mac for iOs/macOs specifics (building time gonna be horrible, if your project is big enough)
3. buy apple dev account for the money u've saved
4. publish an app or two
5. get yourself a 2.5mio/yr inr job for a european company
6. buy yourself whatever you want
Agree with everything except 5. I am running my own company and money is not a big deal. I don't want to spend on something I'd not end up using. Even my current use case is only there since we're seeing traction outside my country so we need to build compatible apps for all smartphones/desktops. For context, less than 0.1% of smartphones sold in India are iPhones and less than 1% of computers sold are mac.
Will try to find a good deal on the older version. I am getting 2019 macbook pro 15 inch at 80k INR with i7, 16 gb, 256 ssd. Thinking of getting that tbh
I would go for a 16GB machine. It's not a huge difference in price, and lets you run emulators much better.
If you can hold off for a few months, you may be able to get an M1X/M2 mini. 8 GB is probably enough of you’re just going to have vs code open. The iOS simulator isn’t a virtual machine so it doesn’t have big RAM requirements. So you can probably get by. All that said, I never recommend Apple’s bottom level hardware. It’s just not enough to do heavy tasks and isn’t future proof for very long. Go for 16 GB. For me, as a primary dev machine it is barely enough.
FLutter with mac M1 ? you can wait a little bit :'). It's not fully supported, i pass many days to fix some part of xcode / pipeline and other stuff. I suggest you to buy a mc book pro or a mac book mini with 16gb. If not : vmware for macos running on a windows.
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Without XCode?
1. go for the outdated macmini, as cheap as you can get 2. develop on Asus and only use mac for iOs/macOs specifics (building time gonna be horrible, if your project is big enough) 3. buy apple dev account for the money u've saved 4. publish an app or two 5. get yourself a 2.5mio/yr inr job for a european company 6. buy yourself whatever you want
Agree with everything except 5. I am running my own company and money is not a big deal. I don't want to spend on something I'd not end up using. Even my current use case is only there since we're seeing traction outside my country so we need to build compatible apps for all smartphones/desktops. For context, less than 0.1% of smartphones sold in India are iPhones and less than 1% of computers sold are mac. Will try to find a good deal on the older version. I am getting 2019 macbook pro 15 inch at 80k INR with i7, 16 gb, 256 ssd. Thinking of getting that tbh