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Yes, and here is why: When sitting in very long, boring meetings, or very long train/airplane rides, I can still hack away on vim (or occasionally eclipse) for
by sophacles 15y ago
Yes, and here is why:
When sitting in very long, boring meetings, or very long train/airplane rides, I can still hack away on vim (or occasionally eclipse) for hours despite the complete lack of power outlets. The fact it's bash/posix means that I can run most of my tools locally as is necessary when I cant ssh to my real development servers.
So basically its not that I prefer OSX as a dev environment, it that OSX provides the same dev environment with a much, much longer battery life.
(oh also good Exchange integration via ical and mail.app don't hurt).
- alextingle 15y agoMac's battery life is not exactly stellar. It used to be pretty good in the PPC days, but now?
- salem 15y agoAnd how was performances in the good old PPC days?
- alextingle 15y agoMy 12" Powerbook got about 5-6 hours. That's about the bare minimum of what I consider acceptable.
- 2muchcoffeeman 15y agoIt's way better. I have a 2 year old MBP 13". Replaced the optical with another HD. Still gets 4 hours battery life. Little more if I am seriously doing work and not messing around.
- alextingle 15y agoErm no. My 12" Powerbook lasted for about 5-6 hours. 4 hours is a definite step backwards from that. My current laptop is a Thinkpad x200, which goes for at least 8 hours of real use (the manufacturer rates it at about 11 hours).