Re: [PHP] [Slightly OT] Apple MacBook MAMP and Logic

Tom Chubb schreef:
I am looking to buy a Mac in a couple of weeks primarily for writing music
using Apple Logic Studio 8 which will run absolutely fine on a MacBook.
However, I am considering installing something like MAMP and using that as
my development server too at which point I'm wondering whether I should
invest in a MacBook Pro or whether I can get away with the lower spec
MacBook.
So I guess what I'm asking is, does having Apache, MySQL & PHP installed on
a Mac use much system resources?

the biggest problem, with Leopard at least, is getting a build of php5 with all
the bells and whistles on it that you need. mostly likely the nice chap and entrophy.ch
has rolled a DMG package with all the trimming by now.

I have no idea how much faster an MBP is compared to an MB but I can tell you it goes
like a bat out of hell - seriously the faster piece of kit I've ever used by far
(it's running WinXP in a Parallels VM as fast as my previous laptop did natively ... and
that was a CoreDuo2 2.0 with 2Gigs ... granted the MBP has a few mroe cpu cycles and
double the RAM but still!)

mostly though you'll probably kick yourself for settling for the less sexy option. ;-)
that said I can't imagine that an MB won't cut it.


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