“I’ve been developing award-winning educational apps for young children since autumn 2008 – not long after the App Store opened,” John Friend writes for App Store Veteran. “My iOS apps use a mix of Swift, Objective-C and cocoapods.”
“The MacBook Pro I use for development recently hit three-years-old, and I decided it was time, once more, to see what’s the best Mac for development,” Friend writes. “I spent less than three years ago, on a machine that’s twice as fast.”
“The 2018 Mac Mini uses desktop processors, and when you configure it with the fastest processor Apple offer, what’s surprising is how well it benchmarks against more expensive Macs,” Friend writes. “According to geekbench.com, it’s almost the fastest Mac for single core processing and not far behind the iMac Pro and Mac Pro for multi-core. Note that its GPU score is poor, but that’s not an issue for developing iOS apps.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Of course, if you need portability, you’ll likely want the MacBook Pro, but the new 2018 Mac mini is surprisingly robust!
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Ironic that the best Mac is simply the most recently updated ‘Headless’ Mac…
In the meantime, we’re still waiting for the Mac Pro
Not irony.
Of ALL the macs that get sold, 80% go to consumers and, for the pros, the most important group to Apple is “those that are making or want to make apps for iOS”. The most important group to Apple is set with the MacBook Pro or the Mac mini.
The next most important group is “those that are using or want to use Apple’s professional apps”… Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro, etc. Those are the ones that can really utilize all the power that’s provided to them. The Mac Pro will be designed for and marketed to this group.
Consider that if you’re still waiting for Apple to produce a Mac Pro. If your main usage is virtualization, emulation, running non macOS native apps, then you’re likely to find the upcoming “modular” Mac Pro lacking.
I would have to argue that if all a person is concerned with is iOS development, they should probably take a step back. . .
I would have to argue that you don’t know what you’re talking about.