Can I use macbook air for ios app development?

I would like to know if i can use macbook air for ios app development or macbook pro is only option?

Just to reinforce what shldr2thewheel says - be very sure what size memory you want if you get a Macbook Air. There is *no* way to change after purchase. My advice is to go for the 4GB option - especially if you want to do app development.
The internal storage (solid state drive) of the Air can be upgraded if required but it will probably be an expensive option. If you don't think the storage will be enough then maybe using a USB connected drive to hold non-essential files is an option.
As to deciding between the Air and Pro you are basically making a decision between portability (Air) and expandability/bigger screens (Pro). What is more important to you?
Mark

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I am thinking of purchsaing mac book air 13" with 1.3 ghz and 4gb ram.
currenlty i am using mac mini.Can any one help me if new mac book air with 1.3 ghz and 4gb ram good enough for ios app development to make it as my prmary machine for development.
Ragards.

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Best.

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I have to create an app for iOS from an existing Flash project.
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Looking into learning how to build ios apps and would like to know from those experienced how much computing power is necessary for building apps.

Just to reinforce what shldr2thewheel says - be very sure what size memory you want if you get a Macbook Air. There is *no* way to change after purchase. My advice is to go for the 4GB option - especially if you want to do app development.
The internal storage (solid state drive) of the Air can be upgraded if required but it will probably be an expensive option. If you don't think the storage will be enough then maybe using a USB connected drive to hold non-essential files is an option.
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Mark

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I get the following error when attempting to debug my AIR-IOS app on an IPad 2.
The weird thing is that the logfile mentioned does not exist.
Any ideas?
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# JRE version: 6.0_29-b11
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (20.4-b02 mixed mode windows-x86 )
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I have the same error.
The wierd is that the log file doesn't exists.
Anyway I try everything... to reinstal my Flash Builder, reinstall all versions of java. I even try to make Xmx and Xms bigger size.. but nothing... still got the error.
If I create new project... then everything works fine... Export Release Build work very well,
but if I try to Export Release Build for my large project... then this error comes up.
I look at my code and no find any errors...
Build for android works as well, the error comes up when I try to build for iOS.
Please Adobe - give us help how to fix this.
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I have always been a PC users since I was young. Currently I do Web Development, HTML, CSS, javascript and Sencha Touch HTML5 mobile app development
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1) MacBook Air 13 ( 1.8GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor , 8GB ram ( Free upgrade promo ), 256GHz SSD
2) MacBook Pro 15 ( 2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, 8GB ram ( Free upgrade promo ), 500GHz HDD
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@Bimmer Sorry I was referring to another new Options
Option 4 ) For this MacBook Pro 15 ( 2.6GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 16GB ram ( Free upgrade promo ).
Option 2) MacBook Pro 15 ( 2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, 8GB ram ( Free upgrade promo ),
I can't decide on this. Need you to help me in this.

Pro support for iOS app-development

Where can I find some more indept support for developing apps using Flash Professional CS5 / CS5.5.
I have been seaching the web for days now. Looking for a place where professional best-practises are shared on this topic. Without any real luck. All i ever see is the same basic tutorials on how to publish your first Hello World-app and some old basics about using cacheasbitmap and such...
Please could someone direct me to the right forum?
Only newly official information I have found so far, is focused on Flash Builder and Flex 4.5... And I'm begining to wonder if this means that app-development using Flash Professional is on it's way out already ?!
(Btw i tryed to make this discussion under Packager for iPhone-forum, but the option to post it there, didn't show up...)

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...definitely not on the way out though!

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Hello,
Been working on an iPad book app in FlashBuilder 4.6. Early on there were some performance issues with iPad1/3 until learning about GPU rendermode and setting the StageQuality to low. These helped immensely.
However, recently the app starting crashing on startup - only on iPad1. For example page 1 of the app which had worked weeks ago would now crash. After more research, it seemed that the static references to all the page classes that were put in the ViewController were the issue. They seemed to be overwhelming the memory. When I put only a static reference to page1 in the VC it worked. And then in page 1 were static references to page 2 or 3. Or whatever pages it might link to. Now, after reworking the 70 other pages to only static reference the pages they need, it is crashing again.
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Pardon the lengthy description.
Any and all help would be appreciated.
Thanks, MTG

@Fahad,
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