I'm a fan of Open Source and have a growing interest in serverless and edge computing. I'm not a big fan of spiders, but they're doing good work eating bugs. I also stream on Twitch.
I wanted to buy a MBP but it was out of my price range. The one thing I made sure of though was getting an i7. I took less disk space to get the i7. I was worried about it only being 8GB of RAM, but it's all good. The only thing that I would have liked is touch ID, but that's with the touch bar which is not on MBAs. I paid for an app to do that though. Unlox, unlox.it.
I've been using MBAs for almost 10 years now for Java programming and academic research. I love them! Very light and portable and the port for SDHC camera cards is handy. I'm currently on my third.
I always plug into a bigger monitor when possible. The 13" screen is usable when travelling but not good for serious work.
But I'm about to upgrade to an MBA for the extra grunt. I recently watched a colleague's ThinkPad load the Eclipse IDE in about a third of the time and compile twice as quickly as my MBA. 8 GB RAM is not enough and the low processor speed really shows.
So I'm going to compromise convenience (I'll feel the extra weight when cycling into work every day) for performance. The larger 15" screen might make a difference when working on the road as well.
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That's what I thought, all my important work is git and all entertainment and the like is external drive.
Do you have any regrets?
I'm in a bind. Everyone (I think everyone) that has a MBA says is good, everyone else says is crap.
I wanted to buy a MBP but it was out of my price range. The one thing I made sure of though was getting an i7. I took less disk space to get the i7. I was worried about it only being 8GB of RAM, but it's all good. The only thing that I would have liked is touch ID, but that's with the touch bar which is not on MBAs. I paid for an app to do that though. Unlox, unlox.it.
The current MBA is i5 (1.8GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor) I don't know what it means but ...
I've been using MBAs for almost 10 years now for Java programming and academic research. I love them! Very light and portable and the port for SDHC camera cards is handy. I'm currently on my third.
I always plug into a bigger monitor when possible. The 13" screen is usable when travelling but not good for serious work.
But I'm about to upgrade to an MBA for the extra grunt. I recently watched a colleague's ThinkPad load the Eclipse IDE in about a third of the time and compile twice as quickly as my MBA. 8 GB RAM is not enough and the low processor speed really shows.
So I'm going to compromise convenience (I'll feel the extra weight when cycling into work every day) for performance. The larger 15" screen might make a difference when working on the road as well.