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Thanks for the recommendation! I'm still using a 2012 MBP. I think it's still fast enough and has plenty of RAM (16GB). I also replaced the battery last year. B
by nathan_f77 7y ago
Thanks for the recommendation! I'm still using a 2012 MBP. I think it's still fast enough and has plenty of RAM (16GB). I also replaced the battery last year. But I think it's time to upgrade to a better computer.
I tried to purchase a new MacBook Pro last week, but they refused to accept my payment for some reason (even after multiple calls to Apple support and my bank.) I'm living in Thailand so it's probably something to do with fraud prevention, but I didn't get any answers.
I think my order problem was a blessing in disguise, because I recently saw that they are releasing a much better keyboard for new MacBooks in 2019/2020. I wish they would also get rid of the touch bar and bring back the MagSafe charger, but at least there's there a better keyboard.
But now your comment (and some replies) have convinced me to start looking at a Thinkpad x1 carbon, and maybe going back to Ubuntu. I don't do too much iOS development any more, but hopefully I can still get MacOS running in a VM if I need it. I was also using Sketch quite a lot, but I've switched to Figma now (which runs in a browser.) I also saw that there's an unofficial Electron app [1].
I think I can probably do everything else I need on Linux: Chrome, Terminal, VSCode, Slack, Spotify, Skype. Looks like I can even run Line desktop app [2] (chat app used in SE Asia.)
The Docker storage driver has been painfully slow on my Mac, so it would be nice to start incorporating Docker in more of my development and testing workflow.
I'm just not looking forward to all the random issues I'll need to figure out.
[1] https://github.com/ChugunovRoman/figma-linux https://github.com/ChugunovRoman/figma-linux
[2] https://askubuntu.com/a/517944/8485 https://askubuntu.com/a/517944/8485