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kubilay
kubilay

Reputation: 5330

System Requirements for a Mac to Develop in MonoTouch and XCode

I want to develop C# and .NET based iPhone applications in MonoTouch. But my goal is to develop iPhone applications so things may end up with Objective-C -so Xcode- too.

Obviously, I have to buy a Mac. I've been lookin' for sales and found a couple of good machines but I still want to make sure that I can use these 2 programs in good performance.

So I want to know that if anyone uses these programs could advice me some system requirements? For example, does the CPU matters? Should I buy an iMac with Intel CPU our is G4-G5 better? And what about the VGA and RAM? Is 1GB or 2GB enough for ram and 256+ for VGA?

Of course better properties mean better performances but what's the minimum for this? We can talk on iMac.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1790

Answers (2)

poupou
poupou

Reputation: 43553

Read this thread from the monotouch mailing-list. It's about laptop initially but it will give you the specs people are using and recommending.

Upvotes: 1

AlexJReid
AlexJReid

Reputation: 1601

(It's Mac not MAC).

It'll have to be an Intel one for any iOS development. I'm relatively happy still on a mid 2009 MacBook Pro with 4GB of RAM. To develop with the iOS 5 SDK you'll need at least Snow Leopard - so any Mac capable of running that will be a minimum.

Upvotes: 1

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