You may be better off with a used Macbook Pro, The prior gen (core 2, and earlier i5/i7) had more key and touchpad travel. I would still be using my c2d based macbook with SSD and memory upgrade if it weren't stolen.
That said, any modern computer with at least 8gb of ram and at least a 256mb ssd should be enough for most front end work. Print and Video is a different story (more ram will help a lot). SSD will make a much bigger difference these days, especially if you're doing web front end work, as modern node/npm based tooling touches a LOT of small files when building, which running without an SSD is painful by comparison on the same system. Going to 16gb of ram will help if you need to run VMs, or will be doing more image manipulation.
Computers have been fast enough for the past 6-8 years now with enough ram and an SSD... Only higher end gaming, video and print editing really push things to need even a higher end machine these days imho.
thx! new macbook(12') is beautiful and it has at least 8gb of ram and at least a 256mb ssd and 1.3GHz dual-core Intel Core m7. just front-end dev, nodejs, npm.
and Dan Abramov use new macbook, so I want to know that is enough for dev?
by the way, I had a mbp(15') but it is born in 2014
It should be sufficient... The mbp was probably sufficient as well... I was disappointed with the non-upgradable memory though. More things are heading in that direction though.
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That said, any modern computer with at least 8gb of ram and at least a 256mb ssd should be enough for most front end work. Print and Video is a different story (more ram will help a lot). SSD will make a much bigger difference these days, especially if you're doing web front end work, as modern node/npm based tooling touches a LOT of small files when building, which running without an SSD is painful by comparison on the same system. Going to 16gb of ram will help if you need to run VMs, or will be doing more image manipulation.
Computers have been fast enough for the past 6-8 years now with enough ram and an SSD... Only higher end gaming, video and print editing really push things to need even a higher end machine these days imho.
and Dan Abramov use new macbook, so I want to know that is enough for dev?
by the way, I had a mbp(15') but it is born in 2014