adam0101

I've been looking at picking up a new laptop for a couple weeks now and talking with fellow developers the most popular recommendation has been the Macbook Air.

With the new Macbook Pro's released today getting a bump in speed and resolution, are these machines good enough to take the lead away from the Air as the current developer machine of choice?

http://www.apple.com/why-mac/compare/notebooks.html

I struggle to be effective in really noisy environments (starbucks), so i will usually listen to music, but that also seems to be a detractor as I will stop what i'm doing to listen to the words. Instrumentals seems to be the solution but I cant find a good source that just has instrumentals.

Does something like Pandora exist with just Instrumentals?

I've done some iOS development and have some niche apps already in the app store, but this latest app that i'm working on I think will appeal to a larger audience and could be useful to people. In the past I've worked with a friend who does some design on the side, but this really isnt their main focus. I would like to get an idea of what to expect if I were to work with some of the amazingly talented designers on here. I'm just a single indie developer so budget is tight...