What make/model do you use? Are you satisfied with it? Are you going to stay in the same operating system ecosystem when you upgrade?
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This is basically among the more powerful Mac laptops before M1. I'm overall satisfied with it. There's more than enough beef here for everything I do. I got it refurbished so didn't pay absolute top dollar.
I'd be happy to lose the touch bar and definitely feel like M1 Chip was a step up I missed out on — though have enough power in this machine to not worry about it, realistically.
At this point I worry that I'm an old dog that can't be taught new tricks enough to really want to leave the Apple ecosystem at this point. Just the way it is despite the premium pricing and certain missed options.
I'm also team MacBook, but I skipped the 15-inch 2019. I need a physical escape key.
That's why I immediately got the MacBook 16" (non-M1) when I saw the keyboard 🥰
I have the same, yet I've still had the keyboard replaced twice thanks to the stupid butterfly key flaw. Now, unless I absolutely have to (like for travel), I always use an external mouse and keyboard
I cannot stand typing or using the touchpad on Macs. I make so many mistakes, and it's not down to familiarity because sometimes the Mac's been the only computer I've used for weeks at a time. I connect an external keyboard and mouse if I can these days.
Dell XPS 13
I have eyed the XPS-13 & 15 for quite some time. How do you like it? I worried that 13 would be too small.
It's really small I have a friend that has it. it would work, but not be practical using it for software development
Screen size of any laptop dev setup all depends on how you use it... Are you always on the go and only working off the laptop screen? Then yes, screen size matters. My setup is a 16" MBP but it's plugged into a mouse, keyboard, and 2 external 32" monitors.
Acer
14"
Windows (laptop!)
Was a custom build from PC Specialist.
The only thing I was never happy with was that I couldn’t overclock the CPU and GPU at the same time as it is only a 300 watt power supply and so there isn’t enough power. To be fair it is a laptop so cooling is always fun when stressing it on both CPU and GPU (rendering videos etc) for an extended period.
So I just O/C the CPU and undervolted it slightly to minimise the max power draw and left the GPU stock speeds. Real shame as I won the silicon lottery on both!
The thing still munches through nearly anything and is 5 years old, but I have been eyeing up building a desktop instead as I want to get back into making videos and so a 1080 is now a little slow.
The m.2 was the biggest win, always invest in a fast HDD for Dev work, saves so much time!
Model: HP Probook 450 G4
OS: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-7200U
Ram: 16 GB
Storage: 256 GB SSD + 1 TB HD
Just got MBP16 with Max, it'll take time getting used to it and its shortcuts, but the thing is beast.
Rust compilation times went down significantly compared to my previous machine, battery life is also sick.
It's my fist Mac and I might stick with it for a while.
My details:
I'm using my 16" Intel MacbookPro, still haven't upgraded to Apple Silicon.
In the past I used to have an iMac and a Macbook, now I prefer owning only one machine so there's the Macbook and an external display at my desk.
I see two advantages of having only one machine: the first is avoiding configuring and updating software and libraries twice, the second is I have more budget to spend on a single machine, so I don't have to compromise on the laptop or the desktop.
I'm an iOS developer so I'll stay on the Mac in the future.
PC running Linux Mint 20.
AMD R5 1600 (af)
32GB ram
GTX 970Ti + GTX 660Ti
TRS-80
Model I
Ofcourse
I prefer to do my important mission-critical work on the coco.
Keeps us sharp. We learned every byte counts. I never deliver a Web Component over 16KB
Fun fact; the Z80 CPU was also used in the space shuttle; NASA bought a shitload of them to keep it flying.
Depends. When working for a company - what they give me. Unfortunately, they usually insist on Macs.
As for my private projects, Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air, 8GB, running Arch Linux is generally more than enough.
For my work, I use: iMac Pro, iMac, iMac, Mac mini (M1), MacBook Pro, and Puget running Windows. (These are work's machines, not mine.)
For fun, I use: iMac Pro, a half-dozen Raspberry Pi, and two Arduino. In the dusty closet, I have two dozen machines that span 30 years.
I'm considering getting a Dell XPS 13 Laptop Developer Edition, with all the available upgrades for CPU, GPU, RAM, SSD, and LCD. (The "Developer Edition" has Ubuntu preloaded.)
I like Unix. I like Macintosh, because it's Unix. I like Linux. I also like Windows, and I am impressed that Microsoft has done an impressive job bringing WSL to the platform. On all platforms I primarily use Vim. I also use Xcode and Visual Studio. For .NET fun, I use Visual Studio for Mac and write F#. (I write small hobby projects in .NET. I've been out of the Java ecosystem for 15+ years; nothing against Java and JVM though, fine language & platform as well.)
I'm cautiously looking forward to the ARM becoming personal computer mainstream. I like to point out that Microsoft had the Surface RT running Windows RT out on the market a full decade before Apple. Successful product...? Well, perhaps not.
MacBook Pro (13-inch 2018)
Processor: 2,7 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
Memory: 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3
Graphics: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 1536 MB
As Devops Engineer perfect.
One that has 0% of its root partition space left!