I would ask where you think MacBooks are falling short for you. For any web development, I can't imagine performance concerns, unless you were doing a lot of graphics heavy work. So (assuming you like OSX ok) it comes down to concerns like build quality and port selection. If the MacBook has been working, don't feel a grass is greener like need to optimize the decision. If it works, it works.
I have a MBP and it feels super sluggish compared to my AMD 8 core desktop. Certain tasks just use more CPU. Though the bigger difference is likely related to RAM, I've got 16GB on my desktop machine. This allows a lot more programs to be kept out of swap, and a lot more of the disk to reside in the cache. This just makes everything faster.
For $3000 you can put together an insane amount of RAM and the fastest SSDs to get wonderful performance. Combine that with a 8 or 16 core chip and even parallel compilation (if needed) speeds up greatly.
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I would ask where you think MacBooks are falling short for you. For any web development, I can't imagine performance concerns, unless you were doing a lot of graphics heavy work. So (assuming you like OSX ok) it comes down to concerns like build quality and port selection. If the MacBook has been working, don't feel a grass is greener like need to optimize the decision. If it works, it works.
I have a MBP and it feels super sluggish compared to my AMD 8 core desktop. Certain tasks just use more CPU. Though the bigger difference is likely related to RAM, I've got 16GB on my desktop machine. This allows a lot more programs to be kept out of swap, and a lot more of the disk to reside in the cache. This just makes everything faster.
For $3000 you can put together an insane amount of RAM and the fastest SSDs to get wonderful performance. Combine that with a 8 or 16 core chip and even parallel compilation (if needed) speeds up greatly.