MacBook Air FTW!

[eek]

Excellent machine - even Eclipse feels responsive on it

Thats a first.

Its the SSD that makes the difference really. With the Dell I picked up last week (Latitude E6520 top of range but not SSD £470 inc) adding the SSD moved it from being very good to blimey that's fast.

[Churchill]

What's the problem with Eclipse? It runs wonderfully on my 64 bit Win 7, 6 core Bulldozer setup

[doodab]

What's the problem with Eclipse? It runs wonderfully on my 64 bit Win 7, 6 core Bulldozer setup

Fine on my dual core laptop as well. Of course I do have 8gb RAM and an SSD, and I increased the starting heap size and switched off a chunk of autocompletes and autovalidations and disabled a few plugins i don't use.

I do keep meaning to try netbeans though.

[NickFitz]

What spec?

The biggest, but I didn't bother with the slightly faster processor - from various articles I've read, that's only really of value if you do a lot of video encoding and such, which I don't. The real speedup comes from the SSD, at least as far as the majority of develeopment-related work goes; and of course any old machine is capable of running trivial stuff like word processing and spreadsheets more than adequately these days.

I do keep meaning to try netbeans though.

I've been using Netbeans at ClientCo, but finally became disillusioned last week when I discovered that, if it's running on Windows, there's absolutely no way to get it to save a file with Unix line endings unless that file was originally created with them: any files it creates get the platform-it's-running-on's line endings, and can't be changed. (Similarly, if you use it to edit a file created elsewhere with Unix line endings, it can't be saved with DOS line endings even though you are running on Windows.) This was very annoying when I was trying to knock up a quick shell script for the STB, which runs a very barebones version of Linux. In the end I had to use dos2unix from a Cygwin shell

[Fishface]

Hackintosh?

you ever done it ?

I have an oldish Thinkpad I was gonna have a go on.