[fpc-pascal] Re: OT: Buy a Mac to develop for MacOS? Which one?

[Ingemar Ragnemalm]

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> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:09:10 +0200
> From: Lukas Gradl <fpc at ssn.at>
> Subject: [fpc-pascal] OT: Buy a Mac to develop for MacOS? Which one?
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> Hi!
>
> Having a customer request to port an app to MacOS I have to think about 
> some test platform.
> As I was never interested in MacOS this is virgin territory to me.
>
> So perhaps some of the Mac-users here can help me out a bit:
> I still want to use my current machines as them main ones, I just need a 
> platform to compile and test my application on.
>
> 1.) Do I really need to buy a Mac? Or is there a good solution to 
> emulate one on an x86 Linux box? Just crosscompiling without the 
> possibility to do serious tests in house is not an option, as my app has 
> to integrate in some hardware-subsystems (printing, networking).
>
> 2.) If 1=yes, which one would you recommend? Which hardware platform? 
> Intel? PowerPC? It has to be OSX, do I have to care which version I get 
> or is just any OSX ok for testing?
>
> Perhaps some Mac-Developer out there could post his/her opinion...
>   

Intel, positively. A MacBook is quite sufficient. A Mac Mini would also 
do the trick. I would not consider emulation.

A second hand PPC Mac is, of course, a lot cheaper, and will do for a 
while, but you will want an Intel one sooner or later.


/Ingemar