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I don't have enough money to go and buy a new Mac Pro, so I'm aiming to buy a used one; namely a 15.4" MacBook Pro Intel c2d 2.4GHz with 4 GB of RAM. It has the latest Lion on it and I'm wondering how Xcode 4.5.1 would perform on this system?

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It runs and probably faster than Xcode v1 did on machines that it could run on - what exact information do you want? – Mark Oct 22 '12 at 13:39

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The system specifications you listed should have no problem running Xcode without any hiccups.

That being said, the more complex a project, the more time it's going to take... on any system.

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I started programming with xcode on a virtual machine with 1 GIG ram and it was working fine with xcode 3. since xcode 4, It was taking at least 7 to 10 minutes to load on a simulator for a simple program. So I decided to buy a real mac not spending much money on the new mac. The only concern is that if c2d 2.4 will be fine with running projects on xcode 4.5.1? – Ehsan Rohani Oct 22 '12 at 14:11

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