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macbook air, is no good for programming. sketching and frontend things yes, but when you start running environments within it like docker for example. it will c
by abude 7y ago
macbook air, is no good for programming.
sketching and frontend things yes, but when you start running environments within it like docker for example. it will crash.
- kall 7y agoIf you spec it out to about 2000$, with the i7 upgrade, 16 GB of RAM, 1TB SSD, I'm pretty sure it will be plenty powerful for the majority of developers. Probably as good as the 5 year old MacBook Pro everyone still uses. Bonus: you get a function key row
- raverbashing 7y agoYou don't need to run docker for every single thing
- sgt 7y agoYes, you don't need Docker for the development environment. I do that sometimes though for convenience and for projects that I develop on only now and then.
- ben_w 7y agoThe use-case is “quickly write tiny JS/PHP/Html programs”. I do that on my Air. I have never used docker and don’t really know what docker is besides a tech-de-jour.
- antigirl 7y agoJS means using npm and node, ive heard my laptop fans go crazy at times. I'm MBP 13 inch, i7, SSD, 16GB Ram
- sgt 7y agoThat's not really true though, and I know this from personal experience in the company that I work for. We have a fairly large development team all using MacBook Air, the previous version. It's a little workhorse, but you gotta know its limitations. It struggles a little with Java development (i.e. running NetBeans or IntelliJ), but the new version (i.e. 2019 model) will do that just fine.
- fredsted 7y agoDepends on the environment. You can easily run Docker containers on the new Air.