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Speed and utilization are not the same. My 2018 MBP was a great speed improvement over the 2015 MBP I previously used, even in cases where the 2015 MBP wasn't

Speed and utilization are not the same. My 2018 MBP was a great speed improvement over the 2015 MBP I previously used, even in cases where the 2015 MBP wasn't using all cores (which really rarely happened, since for the workloads I use, multiple Electron apps and Docker for Mac, typing in Slack would start stuttering as soon as multiple cores were in constant use). I don't think it was ever usable enough at 6-7 cores maxed for me to start new things to try to use that last core...

faizshah 8y ago
I've had the opposite experience. I use a mid 2012 retina that I bought used and have spilled water on 4 times. I keep 10 chrome windows open with around 15-20 tabs open each. In addition to microsoft word, sketch/figma, atom/pycharm/rubymine/intellij, multiple preview books, multiple iterm instances, postgres, and the Books app. I don't have any trouble except when using docker for mac (which I just use the cloud for now) and photoshop. I would like to get a new laptop though.
- randallsquared 8y ago
  > I don't have any trouble except when using docker for mac That's... the same experience? Not "opposite", for sure.
hollander 8y ago
If you spend big bucks on a MBP, and still have problems with performance, you could start using the cloud or a home server for that docker stuff. Scaleway has reasonable priced servers, or you buy something like a simple Zotac Mini PC to run as linux server at home.
- hultner 8y ago
  Do you happen to know any great guide for setting it up properly? I did it a while back with docker machine but I remember it being quite the hassle and didn't work as smoothly as a locale instance, damn shame since docker is the number obesity leading reason I keep running out of ram on my laptop.
  - arbie 8y ago
    I have had a good time with Cloud9, now part of AWS. I default to t2.nano and scale it up for large bursts of workload.

faizshah 8y ago

I've had the opposite experience. I use a mid 2012 retina that I bought used and have spilled water on 4 times. I keep 10 chrome windows open with around 15-20 tabs open each. In addition to microsoft word, sketch/figma, atom/pycharm/rubymine/intellij, multiple preview books, multiple iterm instances, postgres, and the Books app. I don't have any trouble except when using docker for mac (which I just use the cloud for now) and photoshop. I would like to get a new laptop though.

randallsquared 8y ago
> I don't have any trouble except when using docker for mac That's... the same experience? Not "opposite", for sure.

hollander 8y ago

If you spend big bucks on a MBP, and still have problems with performance, you could start using the cloud or a home server for that docker stuff. Scaleway has reasonable priced servers, or you buy something like a simple Zotac Mini PC to run as linux server at home.

hultner 8y ago
Do you happen to know any great guide for setting it up properly? I did it a while back with docker machine but I remember it being quite the hassle and didn't work as smoothly as a locale instance, damn shame since docker is the number obesity leading reason I keep running out of ram on my laptop.
- arbie 8y ago
  I have had a good time with Cloud9, now part of AWS. I default to t2.nano and scale it up for large bursts of workload.