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> Whatever you're using it for, clearly it's the 1% Dude, are you seriously suggesting a laptop marketed for developers not be used by people writing and compi

by pavanky 10y ago

> Whatever you're using it for, clearly it's the 1% Dude, are you seriously suggesting a laptop marketed for developers not be used by people writing and compiling code? Seriously any project of decent size written in a systems language just consumes all the ram you can throw at. If you think this only happens to 1% of the developers, you need to step out of your echo chamber and see what other developers are doing.

gaius 10y ago
Dude, are you seriously suggesting a laptop marketed for developers not be used by people writing and compiling code? I know right - it's like everyone has forgotten that Pro means "for professionals". And also forgot that the booming sales of the iPhone and iPad owe everything to the ecosystem of apps and content created on Macs. People doing 3D, engineering simulations, computational bio and chem, financial modelling, yadda yadda, there are loads of people who can make use of every byte of RAM and every core for Real Work. So some guy can make websites adequately on a smaller machine - he or she needs to look up and realize that that's a tiny corner of what computing is about...
- sjwright 10y ago
  Nobody for whom absolute CPU power is paramount is crunching on a laptop anyway. The sorts of examples you cite are better off implemented on a grunty workstation or even cloud computing. If portable access is needed, remoting in is the answer.
  - gaius 10y ago
    For many people these days their laptop is their only computer and they value the ability to work without cheap, fast connectivity, while traveling say. You know, the entire use case for portable computers existing at all.
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    - sjwright 10y ago
      You don't need to "own" a workstation to take advantage of cloud processing. It's the cloud. You rent the CPU cycles when you need them. And they can even be crunching away on your most difficult engineering simulations while you're mid-flight. The number of people on this planet who need to have 16+ cores of CPU power on the tray table of an aeroplane could probably be counted in single digits.
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by pavanky 10y ago

gaius 10y ago

Dude, are you seriously suggesting a laptop marketed for developers not be used by people writing and compiling code? I know right - it's like everyone has forgotten that Pro means "for professionals". And also forgot that the booming sales of the iPhone and iPad owe everything to the ecosystem of apps and content created on Macs. People doing 3D, engineering simulations, computational bio and chem, financial modelling, yadda yadda, there are loads of people who can make use of every byte of RAM and every core for Real Work. So some guy can make websites adequately on a smaller machine - he or she needs to look up and realize that that's a tiny corner of what computing is about...

sjwright 10y ago
Nobody for whom absolute CPU power is paramount is crunching on a laptop anyway. The sorts of examples you cite are better off implemented on a grunty workstation or even cloud computing. If portable access is needed, remoting in is the answer.
- gaius 10y ago
  For many people these days their laptop is their only computer and they value the ability to work without cheap, fast connectivity, while traveling say. You know, the entire use case for portable computers existing at all.
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  - sjwright 10y ago
    You don't need to "own" a workstation to take advantage of cloud processing. It's the cloud. You rent the CPU cycles when you need them. And they can even be crunching away on your most difficult engineering simulations while you're mid-flight. The number of people on this planet who need to have 16+ cores of CPU power on the tray table of an aeroplane could probably be counted in single digits.

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