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What's striking to me is the prevalence of laptops. As someone who has worked from home for a very long time, my iMac and Desktop PCs are miles and miles faste
by GiorgioG 6y ago
What's striking to me is the prevalence of laptops. As someone who has worked from home for a very long time, my iMac and Desktop PCs are miles and miles faster for software dev than any work-issued laptop I've ever had. Laptop CPUs have not historically been able to compete with desktop CPUs. For remote workers, give them the option of getting a desktop-class machine.
- lylo 6y agoFreeAgent CTO here. We now default to quad-core i7 32GB 13" MacBook Pros which are super-flexible (travel, working in different locations etc) and definitely powerful enough for local dev. We benchmarked these when running tests locally against 16" hex-core MBP and found comparatively little difference – CPU ultimately stops being the bottleneck at some point. It looks like mobile dev workflow (iOS and Android) benefits from more powerful machines (and definitely 32GB RAM) but again it's a trade off over power vs portability, the latter being important for our developers.