I'm a loony and I have the Macbook with the CD drive in it still. Got it in 2015. I like programming on it.
I had a Macbook Air a while back too, but there were some things I didn't like about it:
Mine didn't have a backlit keyboard, so be careful when you get one that yours has a backlit keyboard if that's something you want.
The SSD didn't really have much space... I felt like I needed to get an external hard drive to make it worth it.
The lack of ports drove me crazy.
If portability is your concern then the retina MacBook Pro's aren't too bad still. Not as thin as an Air but still pretty portable.
If pricing is your concern, you could try to get a Mac Mini? You could reuse any of the peripherals you had with your old Mac but in a desktop form? New ones are only like $500 so that could be a good cheap option?
I did work with a Macbook air 11'' as a web developer and didn't had any troubles. The major issue for me was the 4gb of ram in mine. It was limiting but I could get stuff done. And while working I would have an external monitor because 11'' was too little for full time working. But for doing things on the go, it was awesome.
Writing code wasn't bad honestly, but the limited space made it difficult for me to have all the SDKs and tools I'd want to develop with installed all at once.
I'm a loony and I have the Macbook with the CD drive in it still. Got it in 2015. I like programming on it.
I had a Macbook Air a while back too, but there were some things I didn't like about it:
If portability is your concern then the retina MacBook Pro's aren't too bad still. Not as thin as an Air but still pretty portable.
If pricing is your concern, you could try to get a Mac Mini? You could reuse any of the peripherals you had with your old Mac but in a desktop form? New ones are only like $500 so that could be a good cheap option?
At the moment price is my concern.
Did you code with MacBook Air , are there any problems in that area ? As the 3 problems you mentioned I can live with.
I haven't even considered Mac mini
Thanks
I did work with a Macbook air 11'' as a web developer and didn't had any troubles. The major issue for me was the 4gb of ram in mine. It was limiting but I could get stuff done. And while working I would have an external monitor because 11'' was too little for full time working. But for doing things on the go, it was awesome.
Oh yea, I forgot how little RAM mine had! Lol
I have the external monitor and an external drive and the current model of MBA has 8gb ram so I really can't see why people are saying is bad choice
Writing code wasn't bad honestly, but the limited space made it difficult for me to have all the SDKs and tools I'd want to develop with installed all at once.
Did you have the 126gb one. I'm thinking of getting the 256gb. Plus I have external harddrive and use git obviously.
I feel like am getting mixed reviews and I have no idea whether I should get the Air or tighten my belt and get the pro