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Hi all !

Today i realized, that my computer ( 4 years old ) is very slow already.

I want develop native Apps for Android and iOS using IONIC (Angular ). Additionally i will
develop PWA. In general i do not care if my Operating System will WINDOWS, MAC OS or LINUX.

Before i invest money in a brand new computer, i would like to ask in this forum, :frowning:

a.) Whichvis the preferable hardware to develop the above mentioned tasks
b.) Which OS should i install ?
c.) Or does it make sense to involve “Virtual Box” somehow in combination with a.) & b.) ?

Any constructive input is welcome

Best regards
Dietmar

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i switched to an macbook like two years ago, because i need xcode of course to develop and upload ios apps - and i really love it (but i’m an apple dude in general :smiley:)

Unsure about what’s possible at the moment but i remember that having a mac was required for ios development some time ago

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Thx, i think i will buy a MacBook 16 inch.
I am wondering if it would work to install parallels and than run a virtual machine, which would be a MacOS, because i would like to leave the Guest System untouched at all and only running parallels on it.

Has someone experience with developing ionic in such a virtual MACOS machine ?

Performance, Problems, etc ?

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Feel free to wait for other opinions, but that looks like needless complexity to me. If you just install nvm and never run any ionic development-related commands as root or under sudo, you can’t do any damage outside of that user’s home directory, and even then a single rm and nvm install can repair even the most burnt-up node installation.

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Macbook, hands down. Can easily do iOS and Android while Windows can only do Android (iOS w/ Appflow, or resorting to hacky methods).

Though the best Mac I ever used was a hackintosh…

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Apple Silicon is the best for you

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I would favor Ubuntu Linux. Right choice

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Hi, awas thinking the same initially.

But, the new ARM will not support windows, as fas as i heard.

The problem is, that i need somehow all the , Windows, Linux and Mac on one Machine and that was the reason why i startet thinking about Mac as a Guest machine and then running three VMs ( Mac,Win and Linux ) on it.

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Hi, that is what i am doing at the moment.
But how to build the IOS package with that setup ?

Appflow could be a solution but i heard it is a little bit hackle.

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Perhaps you need Windows for other things, but you don’t need it for Ionic development. iOS is the real outlier here, as you can build for all other platforms using a headless setup inside a VM sitting in a cloud hosting service if you desire.

So my recommendation is:

  1. do your day-to-day development in whatever environment you feel comfortable and productive in;
  2. have a Mac sitting around to do iOS builds if “MacOS” isn’t your choice for #1.
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