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In general if you’re a professional software engineer, the productivity upgrade of upgrading your tools at least every 5-6 years is worth the money. If you bou
by CHY872 4y ago
In general if you’re a professional software engineer, the productivity upgrade of upgrading your tools at least every 5-6 years is worth the money.
If you bought high-end-ish laptops in
2021, 2016, 2011, 2006, you’d have gone through 3 different microarchitectures, and had a transformative experience change on each upgrade. If you upgrade every year, not so much.
I don’t like the XCode MacOS version requirements - I couldnt build the JVM a while back because my work hadnt yet approved Monterey but XCode required it. That was annoying.
- benj111 4y agoBut then the problem is that Devs are checking their snazzy webpage on a top of the line Mac, thinking it runs great, meanwhile pcs around the world are being brought to their knees. So I would say, maintain your old computer and the one before that as testing laptops, so you know what the plebs have to put up with.