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I have a 2-3 year old Gazelle and a 2015 mbp. Here's my opinion: the Apple has beautiful hardware, retina screen, and an nvidia gpu. I hate everything else abou
by greydius 10y ago
I have a 2-3 year old Gazelle and a 2015 mbp. Here's my opinion: the Apple has beautiful hardware, retina screen, and an nvidia gpu. I hate everything else about it (e.g. mac os). The Gazelle shell is just a System76 branded generic laptop, but it has an i7 and ssd. The thing is a powerhouse, and I use it for almost everything.
My advice: if you want a solid development platform, System76 is the way to go (and will cost half as much). If you care more about a nice retina screen and dont mind mac os, stick with a mbp.
- p10_user 10y agoJust curious, why do you dislike Mac OS so much? I use an MacBook Pro laptop and have Debian based OS for work and I find the transition between the two computers almost negligible. Using the brew package manager on OS X lets me install anything I've needed. Though to be fair I primarially do data analysis and not heavy application development.
- greydius 10y agoIt's all the little differences that add up. Emacs behaves differently. /home isn't actually /home. Some of the Unix utilities are slightly different from the gnu versions. Etc. Basically, my Mac finds a way to annoy me every day.