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The equipment will be meant to generate revenue. But it can only generate revenue once I learn how to develop for ios\osx. And I can only learn it by having a mac.

I don't want shinny. I want something portable (hence the mbp or mba) and powerful enough to do what I want.

I have considered it, but for a "little" more I would have a lot more portability.

Thank you for commenting. Do you think I should go for the 16gb of ram, or would the 8gb be enough for ios dev? Assuming I don't plan on running any VM in it

Indeed. If I may ask, which sort of development do you do? Web or app? How much ram do you have? And shich ssd size did you choose?

Thanks

Too bad my country's Apple store doesn't have refurbished products :(

Thank you very much for you comment. I guess you're right, there's probably no point in upgrading my current machine. But I'm curious you suggest the 15'' mbp with a large ssd. Wouldn't a 13'' mbp be enough as a secondary dev machine? Assuming I run VM's on my main dev machine (windows).

Thanks for the advice. But, if I won't learn how to develop iOS\OSX applications then I will never have paying work related to it, right? I believe this will be half hobby half investing in my future skills.

Thanks! Will keep an eye in ebay

Isn't running OSX in a VM against its TOS ? I could get my apple ID banned, right? Why do you think the mba is useless? I wouldn't use any CPU intensive programs (eg.: photoshop, video editing)