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Is it a bizarre suggestion? The laptop seems pretty wonderful by all accounts. Low power draw, amazing battery life, great OS (I’m still a fan), great mouse, I

Is it a bizarre suggestion? The laptop seems pretty wonderful by all accounts. Low power draw, amazing battery life, great OS (I’m still a fan), great mouse, I like the keyboards (blasphemy I know)... So, if I like all those things, but I can’t build a docker image locally (for now), why not just do something that will potentially improve my development experience in addition to allowing me to use this machine? I mean, folks should do what they want. But, I’d say calling this recommendation bizarre to be a bit over the top :)

ashtonkem 6y ago
It’s certainly weird to spend $1-2k on a high end laptop and then have to do workarounds to run one of the more important pieces of software in the current technical stack. I personally would wait until Docker works, if that was a problem for me.
mongol 6y ago
As you said yourself, 'I’ve found remote development to be really fantastic as an option on a personal “underpowered” laptop. ' I totally believe that, but the question is, how good of an option is it for a powerful, expensive laptop.
- wjossey 6y ago
  I usually draw the line for local vs. remote if I'm spinning up multiple services. In particular, if I'm using something like minikube to do end to end testing (I develop tooling on top of Kubernetes), remote development is far superior because I can offload a bunch of the heavy lifting away from my development machine. It's pretty easy to peg one's CPUs using Docker & K8, resulting in CPU throttling and just a slower experience locally. If I were in IT, I'd not be buying M1 laptops right now for the company. However, for a personal development workhorse, I'd jump on it. I wouldn't miss local docker.
- bryanrasmussen 6y ago
  I have always supposed that something that works great on an underpowered laptop would work even better on a full-power laptop.

ashtonkem 6y ago

It’s certainly weird to spend $1-2k on a high end laptop and then have to do workarounds to run one of the more important pieces of software in the current technical stack. I personally would wait until Docker works, if that was a problem for me.

mongol 6y ago

As you said yourself, 'I’ve found remote development to be really fantastic as an option on a personal “underpowered” laptop. ' I totally believe that, but the question is, how good of an option is it for a powerful, expensive laptop.

wjossey 6y ago
I usually draw the line for local vs. remote if I'm spinning up multiple services. In particular, if I'm using something like minikube to do end to end testing (I develop tooling on top of Kubernetes), remote development is far superior because I can offload a bunch of the heavy lifting away from my development machine. It's pretty easy to peg one's CPUs using Docker & K8, resulting in CPU throttling and just a slower experience locally. If I were in IT, I'd not be buying M1 laptops right now for the company. However, for a personal development workhorse, I'd jump on it. I wouldn't miss local docker.
bryanrasmussen 6y ago
I have always supposed that something that works great on an underpowered laptop would work even better on a full-power laptop.