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It's hard to justify buying a new notebook in this day and age IMO. Since 2014 hardware has been about the same with the same price point for customer notebooks
by aprdm 10y ago
It's hard to justify buying a new notebook in this day and age IMO. Since 2014 hardware has been about the same with the same price point for customer notebooks..
I had a macbook air 13 from my company and would probably have kept it to this date. Since my company took it back I am using some 13' toshiba with i3 and 4gb of ram running ubuntu.. haven't seen the need to upgrade.
- astrodust 10y agoSince 2014 the hardware has been more than adequate for 90% of the people that buy those sorts of machines. There's also not a lot of room for improvement since the i5/i7 from 2014 and the i5/i7 from 2017 aren't dramatically different. > I am using some 13' toshiba with i3 and 4gb of ram... You're complaining about the hardware not being better and you're using a super low-end laptop. Maybe your real complaint is price, not performance, as you can get machines like that for $200 if you're not concerned about anything other than cost.
- aprdm 10y agoYep. In MY day to day, as a backend / front-end / devops guy, it isn't worth the money to buy anything better than what I have IMO. All I do is vim, run stuff in cloud machines through ansible (SSH), and a browser. My last MacBook Air with an i7 was better than what I have but not $2k better.
- nunez 10y agoThe Air with a retina display would be the perfect laptop.