Ask HN: anyone using the new MacBook Air as your main development machine?

Re:Ask HN: anyone using the new MacBook Air as your main dev... by st3fan on Saturday October 23, 2010 @07:53PM (#1824694)

Doesn't the iPad only fit on the 17" MacBook Pro? I don't think there is any other MacBook that can hold the iPad simulator.

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Re:Ask HN: anyone using the new MacBook Air as your main dev... by Zev on Saturday October 23, 2010 @08:11PM (#1824741)

You can scale the simulator down to 50%.

And if you don't need the window chrome, you can fit almost all of the iPad simulator onto a 1440x900 display. Enough so that its definitely usable.

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Re:Ask HN: anyone using the new MacBook Air as your main dev... by ssutch on Saturday October 23, 2010 @07:58PM (#1824705)

The high res 15" screen is suitable for every resolution/orientation of iOS devices currently available.

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Re:Ask HN: anyone using the new MacBook Air as your main dev... by st3fan on Saturday October 23, 2010 @08:07PM (#1824730)

Uh no. The hi-res screen is 1050 high. Which is not enough for the iPad simulator in portrait mode at 100%. It works because the simulator simply gets scrollbars, but I find that very annoying.

The 17" is 1200 high. Which is is good for any iOS device in the emulator.

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Re:Ask HN: anyone using the new MacBook Air as your main dev... by russell_h on Saturday October 23, 2010 @08:31PM (#1824772)

An iPad is only 1024 high, does OSX have a way to disable the window chrome?

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Re:Ask HN: anyone using the new MacBook Air as your main dev... by st3fan on Saturday October 23, 2010 @09:23PM (#1824886)

That would be a nice hack! Bring it on!

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Re:Ask HN: anyone using the new MacBook Air as your main dev... by ryanpetrich on Saturday October 23, 2010 @11:24PM (#1825104)

Megazoomer works on the iPhone Simulator in iPad mode: http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html

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