Not gonna over think it, but I was more thinking that by the time the dev release gets out, people will probably care more that ARM works than Intel. Where the puck is going so to say.

Ted
On Dec 1 2021, at 9:30 am, tavmjong@free.fr wrote:

I was thinking a 2018 as I'm not sure of the status of Inkscape on the ARM based ones. The base ARM model is a bit cheaper than the base Intel mode but the cost of memory/SSD upgrades to the ARM one seems to be huge and it can't be upgraded after the fact.

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Ted Gould" <ted@gould.cx>
| To: tavmjong@free.fr
| Cc: inkscape-board@lists.inkscape.org
| Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 6:30:47 PM
| Subject: [Inkscape-board] Re: Developer hardware support
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| I think that sounds like a good idea. I don't think we need an
| official policy on something if we're not going to do it regularly,
| we can just handle it on a case-by-case basis.
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| Noticed that you mentioned a 2018 one, but would it be better to have
| an ARM based Mac Mini? Would be nice to have someone with that HW
| testing the builds as well. I think they're also cheaper (not sure
| about in Europe).
|
| Ted
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| On Nov 30 2021, at 3:46 am, tavmjong@free.fr wrote:
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| Hi all,
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| I would like to raise the topic of getting hardware into developer's
| hands. I'm really not sure the best way to do this (or if we
| should). My motivation is the frustration I'm having with not
| knowing if I am breaking the our MacOSX code with the refactoring I
| am doing... and when I do get reports of breakage, not being able to
| fix it (it's currently broken now!). A little research shows that a
| 2018 Mac Mini can be had for around $1000. Given our current
| financial state, that would see like a reasonable investment. I
| could imagine though, coming up with a policy of what kind of
| support is given to who could be quite a challenge.
|
| Tav
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