On Jan 31, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Tom Chubb wrote:

> I am looking to buy a Mac in a couple of weeks primarily for writing
> music
> using Apple Logic Studio 8 which will run absolutely fine on a
> MacBook.
> However, I am considering installing something like MAMP and using
> that as
> my development server too at which point I'm wondering whether I
> should
> invest in a MacBook Pro or whether I can get away with the lower spec
> MacBook.
> So I guess what I'm asking is, does having Apache, MySQL & PHP
> installed on
> a Mac use much system resources?

Hi Tom,

If you turn on your personal websharing on the Mac, you are running
Apache, I believe PHP is preinstalled even on desktop Mac's, and MySQL
is a simple download... I don't think running all of those for
development would hurt any much more then running them on an actual
server...

That being said, I've always had a server at my disposal so I've never
needed to try and run it locally. But in theroy I don't think it would
eat up any more resources on the local computer rather then on a
server. Especially since OS X Server, is pretty much OS X Client with
a few more GUI's



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