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I think you're straw-manning the premise. He's not talking about the difference between a '10 MBP and an '11 MBP, more like the difference between a mid-to-high
by ben_straub 15y ago
I think you're straw-manning the premise. He's not talking about the difference between a '10 MBP and an '11 MBP, more like the difference between a mid-to-high-end '08 MBP running Leopard and a mid-to-high-end '11 workstation running Lion. Try going back to 3-year-old machine for a week, and I think you'll find it's kind of annoying, and your morale will die the death of a thousand papercuts.
- tptacek 15y agoIt is a total straw man. But tell me you don't know developers who would make the argument anyways. I've employed people who made similar arguments.
- enjo 15y agoI'm typing this on a 3 year-old machine... I'm doing just fine:) I should elaborate: I'm running an almost 3 year old MacBook Pro. I do all of my development within VirtualBox (Ubuntu 10.11). I have it connected to a gasp single external monitor. I work every day on a MongoDB/Python stack. It could be faster, sure... but I'm hardly unhappy with it.
- aaronblohowiak 15y agoI dunno, man. I do most of my ruby/node/c development on an 11" mba, which is about as powerful as an '08 mbp. Sometimes, I am annoyed by slow test suites, but overall I dont feel the machine is holding me back. If you asked me to work on a windows box, I'd end the conversation politely.
- HeyLaughingBoy 15y agoI work on a pretty big C++ project and had a ~5 year old Thinkpad until about a month ago. I can't say that I notice a useful difference. Incremental builds mean that I rarely have to rebuild the entire solution, and when I do, even on the old machine, it's not a big enough deal that I would bitch about it. I think that for most of us, a few gig of RAM, 2 cores and a 22" monitor (that was my setup last month) is enough that more horsepower wouldn't make us substantially more productive.