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Which cheap old Mac for development?
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<blockquote data-quote="xstep" data-source="post: 828344" data-attributes="member: 11647"><p>A G4 with a Gig of ram should be fine. BUT, check the spec requirements for the version of OS X you are going to run. <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/" target="_blank">Leopard requires</a> a G4 running at 867Mhz. You'd have to do some digging for specs for older versions of OS X. As far as I know, Universal compiling support is not limited by the box, but I think that came out when Tiger (OS X 10.4) was released. Here are the <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1514" target="_blank">requirements for Tiger</a>.</p><p></p><p>The minimum OS X version I consider for development is Tiger, 10.4.x. BUT, then you may have to check if you are limited to a version of XCode. Tiger because you grab a larger audience. I believe the most current version of XCode can limit your target to Tiger and above.</p><p></p><p>You can join the <a href="http://developer.apple.com/" target="_blank">ADC</a> (Apple Developer Connection) for free where you can download the appropriate version of the development tools, join the mailing lists, and find more answers.</p><p></p><p>If you are considering iPhone programming, then I think that requires an Intel Mac and Leopard if you wan to run the iPhone emulator. Although I thought I saw that someone came up with a work around to get PPC machines to work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="xstep, post: 828344, member: 11647"] A G4 with a Gig of ram should be fine. BUT, check the spec requirements for the version of OS X you are going to run. [URL="http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/"]Leopard requires[/URL] a G4 running at 867Mhz. You'd have to do some digging for specs for older versions of OS X. As far as I know, Universal compiling support is not limited by the box, but I think that came out when Tiger (OS X 10.4) was released. Here are the [URL="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1514"]requirements for Tiger[/URL]. The minimum OS X version I consider for development is Tiger, 10.4.x. BUT, then you may have to check if you are limited to a version of XCode. Tiger because you grab a larger audience. I believe the most current version of XCode can limit your target to Tiger and above. You can join the [URL="http://developer.apple.com/"]ADC[/URL] (Apple Developer Connection) for free where you can download the appropriate version of the development tools, join the mailing lists, and find more answers. If you are considering iPhone programming, then I think that requires an Intel Mac and Leopard if you wan to run the iPhone emulator. Although I thought I saw that someone came up with a work around to get PPC machines to work. [/QUOTE]
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