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hmm... maybe Im buying the better gear for my team? rather than on myself? or maybe a 5yr old Macbook is running just fine with the tools I need to develop with? Xcode running? check..iOS device running? check... Vagrant linux images running? check... Amazon running? check... not sure I understand your frustration here.

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Well, I have a 2012 Macbook Air that I bought last fall and am really happy with. Before that, my main gear was an iMac late 2006, which was slow as hell, especially when compiling reasonably sized projects.

An 2008 Macbook might be sufficiently faster. Good for you.

I used to do visual effects...and render on a Mac8500...days sitting in pain... perhaps I learned something about enjoying pain from this? haha. ;)

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