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I have a 2013 MacBook Air. I used to develop Django apps on a Windows PC and was perfectly satisfied. I had to switch because of a off-hand promise. I've never
by koliber 10y ago
I have a 2013 MacBook Air. I used to develop Django apps on a Windows PC and was perfectly satisfied. I had to switch because of a off-hand promise. I've never been happier.
I made a lighthearted promise one day, many moons ago, to my client. We were running our service on CodeIgniter in PHP. I found it difficult to move quickly. I was gently trying to convince them to move to Django. My client jokingly remarked that if we ever do change to Django I will need to start developing on a Mac. Knowing that it is not smart to just change languages and frameworks for the heck of it, I agreed to the promise. I did not really want to get a Mac. Some time passes and we need to do a ground-up rebuild for various other reasons. Other people recommend Django to him out-of-band and bam!
Promise made, promise kept. We switch to Django. I get a Mac. Both decisions turned out very well.
The main thing, as silly as it may be, my favorite thing is the multiple desktop and the three-finger touchpad sweep to change between them. I had a brand new 3 monitor set up, with plans of going to 6. All of a sudden I have as many "monitors" as I want in a super-portable package!
I like the Mac. It took about two weeks to get used to it, but it is nice. It feels very natural. I may go back to a PC one day, but not before I can have virtual screens and a multi-touch sweep to change between them.
- swhunter 10y agoDo you have to obsolete (not produced) thunderbolt displays? I have a macbook air and am trying to figure out how to do a two (external) display set up but have had trouble figuring out which monitors/set up would work for this. If you do use thunderbolt displays I'll keep looking for other solutions, but if you have a set up with another brand of display and could post your set up that'd be super helpful!
- pan69 10y agoI have a Dell UltraSharp Monitor [1] attached to my Air when I use it, the monitors come with the correct display port cables to connect to a Mac. You can also daisy-chain (MST) these monitors so technically if you'd use two you only have to use one port on your Air. However, the Air doesn't support more than one monitor at the time, at least I can't get it to work on my Air (I think it has to do with the bandwidth in pixels that the GPU can process, or something like that). I think the Pro is capable of supporting more than one display at once. The screens are pretty good for the price charged. http://accessories.ap.dell.com/sna/sna.aspx?c=au&cs=aubsd1&l=en&s=bsd&~topic=ultrasharp-monitors http://accessories.ap.dell.com/sna/sna.aspx?c=au&cs=aubsd1&l...
- koliber 10y agoI was not very clear when I wrote the original comment. I had a PC with multiple monitors. My MacBook has no external monitors. I use the virtual desktops and three-finger swipes, and could not be happier.
- kevinherron 10y ago> I may go back to a PC one day, but not before I can have virtual screens and a multi-touch sweep to change between them. Windows 10 does all of this.