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Counterpoint, would you buy a machine in 2020 to service as a developer laptop or desktop with 8 gb of ram and 512 gb of storage? Saying that the premiums are "
by banachtarski 6y ago
Counterpoint, would you buy a machine in 2020 to service as a developer laptop or desktop with 8 gb of ram and 512 gb of storage? Saying that the premiums are "just the upgrades" sort of ignores what those upgrades actually are and how much they cost.
- danmur 6y agoNot really related but I got a surface pro to replace an Android tablet and even though I'm a native Linux user I find myself doing some light dev work on it. It's quite pleasant even with only 8gb of RAM. It only cost $700 though. If it was more expensive if be pretty unhappy about all the many, many deficiencies. My partner has a new MacBook, a lot more expensive, and the performance is atrocious.
- aldanor 6y ago512GB for a dev laptop? Yes I would. For 16GB RAM you pay +$200, even with that added the total price is still pretty low given what you get.
- bfrog 6y agoWait, the base spec has 8gb? Can you even start chrome up on there? I'd be scared of running out with chrome and a few tabs....
- jason0597 6y agoI've been running Chrome on my Arch desktop with 8GiB of RAM just fine for the last couple of years. Usually averaging to 20 tabs
- dagw 6y agowould you buy a machine in 2020 to service as a developer laptop or desktop with 8 gb of ram and 512 gb of storage? As my only computer, probably not. As a portable computer that I can easily carry around with me and use for ~70-80% of my work, absolutely. The M1 Macbook Air is the first Apple computer in I don't know how many years I'm seriously considering buying.