Frustrations with my MacBook Pro are leading me to re-evaluate my machine strategy. I've been hung up on this since before I bought this computer, but my experiences have sealed the deal. What are those frustrating experiences you might ask? Basically everything. And I just don't see any laptop computers on the market that make me want to stick with this form-factor even if I simply ditched the Apple ecosystem. Mobile computing has progressed to the point where I feel adequately plugged in on the go. But ideally, I'm unplugged when I'm not at my workstation anyway.
My current workflow is that I carry my MacBook around and then plug in when I need it. The process of plugging in is itself chaotic and annoying with my various cords (and dongles!!).
I've enjoyed the convenience of one machine so everything is configured and installed as I need it, but a more cloud-centric workflow is perfectly reasonable. I look forward to finding ways to keep things in sync.
I'm no longer a fan of "working from coffee shops". It was fun for a while, but I now find it frustrating. This is likely because I lead a team and workflow disruptions just make the whole process worse.
I work both from the office and at home, which is why I have gone with the laptop, but I look forward to having two distinct physical machines and not having to carry the laptop around!
I am excited about the change. I'll keep a lower-powered laptop around here and there, and maybe see where the tablet computing scene is going in terms of secondary machines. I'm rarely all that productive with my coding work when I'm away at conferences or something, so I don't really need the primary laptop for anything. I am still not sure whether I want to go MacOS, Linux or Windows.
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Sorry for resurrecting.. What did you end up with?
You may also add to the picture that new AMD CPU's provide just enormous level of performance for reasonable price.
P.S. also considering adding desktop computer to my home office setup...
I'm also really tired of my early 2015 Macbook pro. The keyboard is terrible, there's no storage. The only thing I really like about the Mac as this point is the display quality, the solid body, and the underlying unix.
Any update on how this change has been? Curious to know if you feel like you lost work time not having a laptop that you can pop open anywhere.
My laptop feels almost like a safety blanket to me. If something ever breaks when I am commuting or not in the office I can easily whip it out and jump in and help.
LINUX #FTW
Hackintosh it up if you have to, Ive ALMOST converted to the dark side but only because cross compiling on a machine that isn't native is WAY harder then it should be...
I think the laptop is convenient. But with all the windows I tend to have open between coding, the project window, a browser to figure stuff out, and... it’s way too small.
I paid ~$3500 for my MBP and it literally has never moved from my desk. I was doing scala work at the time so I needed a powerful laptop at the time.
I hated the keyboard that I was forced to get an external keyboard (wasd which I love btw), but now I really miss the trackpad. After paying $3K+ I feel like I didn't get what I really needed from Apple.
This blows my mind! I cannot believe you're making it happen with this laptop! I have so many questions! What linux distro are you running? What type of development are you doing? Aside from the obvious, huge amount of money in your pocket. What are some of the pros/cons you've noticed so far?
I didn't know about that! Thanks about information!
The default for my was gnome 3!
Great observation man. Thanks!
I would actually disagree with the 'default interface' statement, at least in the case of both Fedora AND Ubuntu. With Fedora, you can get into depth and customize it, but if you wanted, say KDE, you would normally use the KDE dedicated spin. Same for Ubuntu, which also defaults to non KDE. For that, you would use Kubuntu. It's not always as 'simple' as 'just choose the ui you want' because many different changes have been made that you wind up with packages you dont need, may have conflicts, etc.