Today my rMBP early 2015 is bricked and full of proprietary software from Apple Inc. 128GB is full now
One major concern of me is iOS developing. I plan to run vBox and dev iOS both emulator and physical hardware.
32GB with 512GB is my target computer. Attach with FullHD 2 extended monitors
Does anybody here has experience this approach?
How laggy is it?
32GB ram w/ 512 GB SSD is easy and far cheaper on this platform than a mac. However, 2 external monitors isn’t realistically possible on the librem laptops as they currently only have a single video hdmi video output. The processor is a low power spec dual core, which can run VM’s ok but doing full blown ios dev inside a VM running MacOS would be less than ideal. Interestingly since the hardware is fully open people have had success running the librem laptop as a hackintosh which you could probably do as a dual boot.
Hackintosh info: Successful multi-boot OS X/macOS (hackintosh) on Purism hardware?
One of the reasons I stopped iOS development was because of the need to use proprietary hardware to create software. *
That said, I understand, and running a dual boot is one solution. However unless you are developing games for iOS, I don’t think a VM based solution is going to be too laggy.
Unless maybe you can get a USB device that gives you a second video output???
Or use an external video card???
Or what about using a Raspberry Pi as a display server i.e. remote display? The latest Raspberry Pi model even has dual HDMI outputs. So you could have three external monitors, plus the laptop’s built-in display.
3 years ago. I tried Hackintosh with my desktop and it went well until OSX rolled new update. kext breaks and black screen with 4 languages pop up to me. I am afraid that new update will break kext once again and Apple is doing that.
Thanks for sharing lo0
I don’t do gaming. I do utilities app CRUD on backend, received push notification, some eye candy animation on app. On thing that I found in my rMBP is simulator act weird, but that problem is not shown up in the physical hardware. Therefore have to buy iPhone for device testing!
Seems like I have to stay with Apple more moment. Since 2 extended monitors and iOS development still being needed on my project
Thank you 2disbetter for sharing