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I'm fine with slower hardware, and agree in principle with what the article is saying, but not poor displays. The reason I pick a MacBook over a Thinkpad is bec
by ilovecaching 8y ago
I'm fine with slower hardware, and agree in principle with what the article is saying, but not poor displays. The reason I pick a MacBook over a Thinkpad is because the screen quality is cash money compared to the 1080p on the stock T series. I just can't do 1080p anymore.
Also, you could solve this problem by just using a VM. If it really bothers you to have so much RAM and CPU, just spin up a 1401 in VirtualBox and use that for all your dev needs.
- rpeden 8y agoI agree with you on display quality. I picked up a ThinkPad x220 for not much money, but I swapped an IPS panel into it because the TN panel it came with was really, really awful. I don't even hate all TN panels - the one one my old MacBook Air was quite decent. When you start getting up toward MBP prices, you can find ThinkPads with decent displays. Even some of the older W series came equipped with a 3k matte IPS, which I found quite nice. I prefer the W series keyboards over the new MBP keyboards as well, but I found the trackpad on my W540 to be ridiculously awful. It's not exactly cheap to buy one of these machines on eBay, but they aren't crazily expensive either.