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As a software developer, I can't say I really care about the Mac Pro. It's not to say that I don't care about performance, I have a MacBook Pro bought by my wo
by halis 10y ago
As a software developer, I can't say I really care about the Mac Pro.
It's not to say that I don't care about performance, I have a MacBook Pro bought by my work that's about 5 months old and it's great.
But honestly, I run the hell out of this thing and I never really notice a slowdown.
I can have Chrome open with a bunch of tabs (I probably limit it to a dozen before I force myself to start reading/closing them), multiple VM's spun up with vagrant/virtual box, a Windows 10 VM via Parallels, an entire linux software stock via docker-compose, Sublime Text, Slack, SourceTree, PostMan, 4 or 5 terminals, a VPN manager, multiple web servers and not notice any slowdown whatsoever.
If a new MBP came out and offered 32GB of RAM, I'd take the option. But do I really have any reason based on reality that I need more than 16GB of RAM? No.
Would I ever buy a 4K or 5K Mac Pro? Unless I had some sort of big data or scientific computing need, no. And even then, wouldn't I have a cluster somewhere else for that? Probably.