hey Everyone, I'm new to corona, and I'm buying my first Mac just to use with corona.

I'm just writing to see if anyone has any experience with corona on a Core 2 duo, vs on an i5 or i7..

the price difference of the i5 is double that of the core2duo, and I have a feeling that the core 2 duo will be more than enough!

does anyone have advice for me on this subject?

thanks in advance guys!

In January 2010, I purchased a White Unibody Macbook (mid-2009). At that time, I wasn't interested in iPhone development when I first purchased it, I just wanted to get a Mac so I opted for the entry-level option.

From Engadget's Review of the Laptop:

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Inside, the internals have been updated to match the 13-inch MacBook Pro -- a 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo and NVIDIA 9400M graphics on a 1,066MHz bus with 2GB of DDR3 RAM and a 250GB drive. That means it's plenty fast for most tasks -- we didn't run any deep benchmarks, but our general feeling was that performance was right in line with the Pro, and the early numbers we've seen here and there tend to back that up.

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Since I JUST got this Macbook this year, I didn't see the point in getting a Macbook Pro or iMac anytime soon, even though it IS my primary computer AND development machine.

I run Firefox, Safari, BBEdit, Photoshop CS5, and the Corona Simulator constantly and I never have problems with speed. Sometimes load times are a bit longer than what I want them to be (Photoshop especially), and if I have TOO much going on, I see a beachball every now and then, but it's by no means slow. It definitely gets the job done.

I plan on upgrading to 4GB RAM very soon, and that should fix any problems with speed I was having.

I use an older PC to store my videos and other backups on (to preserve hard drive space on my MacBook) but I plan on getting at least a 1TB external drive pretty soon, so hard drive space isn't an issue (250GB is plenty enough).

The ONLY thing I could think that my laptop isn't sufficient for is if I were doing lots of video editing, or extremely high resolution Photoshop work (or needing to work on hundreds of photos at once, etc). I've used iMovie a few times and that's probably the only app I've experienced a significant amount of slowdown with. However, all that might be fixed by simply upgrading my RAM (this model is said to take a max of 4GB ram, but it can actually take 8GB if you use the right type).

So unless you're doing a lot of movie editing, to answer your question, I think a Core 2 Duo holds up just fine in most situations :-)

I use an 27" iMac i7 8Gb and it absolutely FLIES.. It is definitely best to get the best that you can afford, as it will only increase your productivity.

I'm interested in the new MacBook Airs though! :D

// red.