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That depends a lot on your working setup. If you do most of your work at the same desk, then iMac is probably better. I do most of my hacking on the road, visi
by bergie 16y ago
That depends a lot on your working setup. If you do most of your work at the same desk, then iMac is probably better.
I do most of my hacking on the road, visiting other companies etc. This is why I go with MacBook Air as my only computer. I want to keep my working environment consistent so I don't even use external displays in my own office
- mhd 16y agoThat's why my "unless..." part was quite extensive. I'm not saying that there aren't reasons for laptops as primary development machines, it's just that making them the default or even the only option seems a bit overrated in my opinion, especially for work machines. There's a bit of wish fulfillment in there, as we'd all like to see ourselves as traveling a lot, writing our startup code in swanky coffee shops etc. But in the end, there's quite a lot of sitting around in your (home) offices...
- noelwelsh 16y agoOne thing I don't like about the iMac is that you can't use them as an external display. Displays last much longer than computers IME. My friend reluctantly junked a 20" iMac w/ a PowerPC processor. The computer was useless but the screen was still great.
- lloeki 16y agoMy 27" iMac has a DisplayPort input to use it as a "passive" screen. Maybe something on the software side like AirDisplay (http://avatron.com/apps/air-display/ http://avatron.com/apps/air-display/) could be of some use to extend an old iMac lifetime as a screen.