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> I have little doubt that in a couple years, the technology Apple has been waiting for will arrive and this vision, or something closer to it, will be complete

> I have little doubt that in a couple years, the technology Apple has been waiting for will arrive and this vision, or something closer to it, will be complete. Apple just released this machine too soon, or was too aggressive in the decisions it made. This summary makes sense to me. Luckily, I put 8GB of RAM in my Macbook Air five years ago, and it'll probably do another year. That said, does anybody use a Macbook for development? If I need to use dongles anyway, I think I could live with one port.

phaedrus 10y ago
In fact I do use a 12" Macbook for development (C++). It does alright; certainly no worse than the 2011 13" Air it replaced. I should mention the CLion IDE makes it get hot and drains the battery unless you turn off certain IDE features. Code::Blocks does fine on it performance-wise, but initially the UI was too fuzzy to read due to incompatibility with Retina display. I can't remember if that's fixed in the latest version or if I found a work-around. I haven't tried to use XCode. My favorite thing about it is that the taller aspect ratio of the screen reminds me of older 4:3 monitors and IMO is a better layout for programming. Edit: I have yet to plug anything into the single USB-C port except the charger. I don't own any dongles. I just use WiFi and bluetooth.