iphone - 用于 iPhone 应用程序构建的最佳硬件是什么？

Question

我从未在 Mac 上编程；我确实使用 objective-c 在 NeXT 机器上编程。我想学习开发 iphone 应用程序从 Apple 购买什么是推荐的最佳(阅读最低成本与最佳开发人员体验)硬件用于 iphone 开发？

提前致谢。

Answer 1

From Craig Hockenberry :

Buy a Mac

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There’s no two ways about it. If you’re going to develop iPhone applications, you’re going to do it on a Mac. The whole toolchain is Mac-only: you can’t do it in Visual Studio or Eclipse or anything else that runs on Windows.

Don’t think that this is some evil plan by Apple to make you use a Mac. It’s no more nefarious than Microsoft requiring Mac developers to purchase Visual Studio in order to develop Windows versions of our products.

Buying a Mac can be an expensive proposition: if you’re just getting started and on a shoestring budget, here’s some advice on doing it on the cheap:

1. Buy a used machine. A lot of perfectly good hardware can be found on Ebay. New models of the Mac Book Pro were recently introduced, so many people are selling hardware after they upgrade. This older hardware is perfectly fine for doing iPhone development: the apps you’re going to develop are small and compact and don’t need a lot of processor power to build and test.
2. Buy a Mac mini. Even though you’re buying new hardware, you’ll save money because you’re supplying your own display, keyboard and other peripherals. If you’re like me, you have plenty of this stuff lying around.

If you’re having a hard time justifying the hardware expenditure, remember that you can run Windows or any other x86 based OS on this machine.

The only thing to keep in mind as you’re buying hardware: make sure that the Mac has an Intel processor. The development tools won’t run on the older PowerPC processors.

正如其他人所说，功能强大的机器对 iPhone 开发没有什么好处:在最慢的 mini 上编译速度足够快，您不会为这种受限(与台式机相比)的硬件编写庞大的程序；模拟器不做处理器模拟，所以它在任何英特尔 Mac 硬件上总是比真正的 iPhone 等更快。所以只有当你有其他用途可以证明费用合理时，才购买更昂贵的 Mac。

更新:截至 2013 年，如果您要购买硬件，请务必购买 something that supports Mountain Lion ，因为 iOS 开发工具通常需要最新的 Mac OS X 版本，或者最好是它的前身。