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They can probably out perform them, but only for a few seconds/minutes. That's why they put a fan in the pro.
by jonplackett 6y ago
They can probably out perform them, but only for a few seconds/minutes. That's why they put a fan in the pro.
- WanderPanda 6y agoWhich actually sounds like a good fit for a dev machine, where you only compile once in a while, but do not sustain high loads
- the8472 6y agolooks at 1-hour compile-test runs on a threadripper yes, of course, great fit.
- McAtNite 6y agoIt’s a great option for office work. Need a day off? Have some errands? Hit the compile button.
- stevehawk 6y agololwut. you mean let your CI/CD on a real computer/server compile it much faster so you can keep working?
- alisonkisk 6y agoSeems silly to do that compile/test on a laptop instead of a server.
- vmchale 6y agoWell they're advertising XCode so
- kkarakk 6y agoif you have a server for on demand compiles why would you buy a macbook over el cheapo linux machine? besides vanity ofc
- bloody-crow 6y agoOSX and overall better dev experience?
- tonyhb 6y agoWhere's dmesg, kvm, namespaces, cgroups, and package management built in? What about inodes and cpu spikes even running node on osx? Let alone doing that inside a container. Nah. OSX is long gone for "better dev experience". Linux always wins.
- thrwyoilarticle 6y agoNot at the company I work for.
- tonyhb 6y agoOn the one hand I'm kind of jealous, but on the other it's really fun :D
- sprayk 6y ago> better dev experience what constitutes a better dev experience?
- bloody-crow 6y agoFrom just off the top of my head - Same text editing shortcuts that work consistently throughout all apps in the system including your editor/IDE, browser, and terminal. - iTerm2 having so called "legacy full screen mode" that I use exclusively. (I've been searching for something similar for windows/linux for quite some time). - The general system polish and usability. This is not directly "dev experience", but it's something you interact with while doing development throughout the day and it's just hands down a lot better than anything linux has atm.
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- skummetmaelk 6y agoA mac server?
- Teknoman117 6y agoWhich don't exist?
- skummetmaelk 6y agoExactly.
- vmchale 6y agoMy compiles take like 8 minutes at worst.
- jonplackett 6y agoYou'd hit thermal throttling way before 8 minutes I'd guess. A lot of my iPhone app builds are pretty quick though, < 1 minute.
- hajile 6y agoI did a lot of development on a pixelbook. Things were mostly fine for development, but compiling took 2-3x as long due to throttling. Our unit tests took around 30 minutes on a fast system though and were simply not worth running outside of the specific tests I was writing.
- ehsankia 6y agoSo if I understand they have the exact same chip in the Air as the Pro? Will better thermal make that much of a difference? Is there really that big of a reason to get Pro over Air at this point?
- jonplackett 6y agoBetter thermal will make a big difference for anything where you need high power for a long period. Like editing video for example. Anything where you need only shorter bursts of power won't make as big of a difference. But better thermals will probably mean they can run the CPU in the Pro at higher base clock speed anyway, so it will probably be faster than the air all around - we'll have to wait for benchmarks to know for sure though.