Yeah I dislike how they do that. Technically you could run an older XCode, but then you'd want to run iOS5 if you're developing, which needs XCode 4.x.x which needs Lion. Having said that, Lion is only £20 for the OS (regardless of which previous version you're coming from).
Really?! Ah my bad. I was running SL too, but my developer is running iOS5/XCode beta and said I should upgrade to Lion for testing... I assumed it was mandatory.
In fact make sure its a core 2 duo because OSX Lion requires it, and to work with the latest version of XCode you need the latest OS, right? [Apple] are sneaky [bastards].
Like you, I have never had any major issues in windows. I even found windows ME was stable for me. Actually the latest OSX lion is even more unstable than wn7 for me. BUT, what I like about OSX is the work flow. I just seem to function much faster in OSX than I do in windows, and I have been using windows since 3.1!
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/stats/macbook-core-2-duo-2.0-black-13-specs.html Would this do for compiling apps? I have a shot at one for €290, and it has a C2D processor and Lion is being installed on it. Worth it? What are the implications with that 64MB graphics system (lol). Also, what is the story with…
No. Whilst it would probably compile apps and some gentle games, Lion would probably crawl on it and it'd just become a headache, that's a very dated machine. The GMA 950 will run UDK but you won't have much fun with more than about 3 polygons. I'd just save up for either a Mac Mini or a new MacBook Pro, heck even an…
would be new to me that OS X is signed, pretty sure it isn't. There's just 2 versions - one computer specific, it only installs on the same hardware it came with, the other version is hardware independent and can be installed on all macs that support it (that one you buy in the Apple store, or now, via the app store). CPU…
A 2Ghz dual core mobile chip is seriously old stuff now, and the OS that shipped on those machines was 3 or 4 generations ago (they either shipped with Tiger (10.4) or Leopard (10.5), my white MB 13 C2D shipped with Tiger back in 06'), Now we're on Lion which is 10.7 and it just wasn't built with 5 year old laptops in…