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This thread is a bunch of front end devs talking about laptop performance.

• alphabettsy 5y ago
  What’s the point of this comment and if it were true what difference does it make?
  • lvl100 5y ago
    You’re right. It was a useless comment. My bad.
  • throwawaysea 5y ago
    My charitable interpretation is that it means that only a narrow set of use cases are being used to judge this laptop. Perhaps the performance profile of this laptop is not so amazing for other types of users, who may still be better off with either an Intel Mac or a windows laptop. For example those that use virtual machines or boot camp to run windows alongside macOS are worse off with the move to Apple silicon. Those who play games are worse off. Those who write machine learning code for nvidia GPUs are worse off. And so on.
• rbanffy 5y ago
  Well... Macs are very popular with front-end developers. They are powerful, portable, easy to use Unix machines. And front-end development, with all its crazy JS requirements, really demands a lot of compute power. For backend developers it's a little different - it is handy to have an x86, considering a lot of your workloads will run on x86 servers (at least for the foreseeable future), and a Linux machine will match the server runtime more closely. You can emulate one, and the M1 is so powerful it can emulate an x86 faster than most x86's can be themselves, but it's more expensive. A better approach I've been using (works with Python) is to treat macOS as a Unix and don't look too closely to the OS running the program. There aren't many surprised down this road. I've been working as a back-end developer primarily from Macs since 2016 and they are sweet machines - even the Intel ones. I also use a Linux laptop a lot and, quite frankly, if you match specs, your Dell will cost more than your Mac and be a lot uglier.
• kayodelycaon 5y ago
  Docker. :)