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It's a notebook. Why would you do any sort of heavy computation on a notebook? Now them not caring about desktops? Yes, that's a valid issue.
by madengr 9y ago
It's a notebook. Why would you do any sort of heavy computation on a notebook? Now them not caring about desktops? Yes, that's a valid issue.
- LyndsySimon 9y ago> Why would you do any sort of heavy computation on a notebook? For me - because a MacBook Pro is a $2-3k notebook, and it's not unreasonable to think that I shouldn't have to buy a $3-4k Mac Pro to do things that I can do without issue on my $500 Linux desktop. There's also the fact that until ~2014, the MacBook Pro was a true desktop replacement. The only real drawbacks to it compared to a desktop machine were the price and the less powerful graphics card. Now? The MBP's specs are significantly lower than comparably-priced machines. FWIW, I have indeed moved more of my computing off my laptop. I have a gaming desktop at home and I rent a VPS that I use for programming and scripts that require significant resources. It's actually gotten to the point that I've put my mid-2015 Retina MBP up for sale and have replaced it with a 6th-gen iPad. The only thing I had to really "give up" for that move was a full-blown IDE on my mobile device; I make do now with tmux and vim over MOSH.
- simonh 9y agoWhat on Earth can you do on a $500 Linux box you can’t do on a MacBook, other than run Linux only software? The only thing I can think of maybe is something that requires 32GB RAM, but surely you can’t get a system like that for anywhere near $500.
- LyndsySimon 9y agoIt has a much faster CPU and a decent discrete graphics card (a 1050 Ti). Granted, I bought it on sale and the machine today would be ~$750, but the real point I'm trying to make is that even that low-specced machine is superior to my newer MBP for many things - like parsing large text files, or pretty anything to do with encryption.