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These days, the hardware of the laptop rarely matters for me. Battery life and screen legibility is what matters above all else because I do little to no comput

These days, the hardware of the laptop rarely matters for me. Battery life and screen legibility is what matters above all else because I do little to no compute on the actual device itself. To that end, I like the Mac M1 Air and the Framework laptops. Nothing beats the battery life of an M1 Air that I have found. What really sold me was my first trip with it, flying from Amsterdam to SFO. Left hotel 3 hours early, 2 hours in airport, entire plane ride (10 hours), uber 1 hour home. Constant use, 60% battery life used. However, my usage is probably atypical. All of my machines, even my phones, belong to a big tailscale vpn. That means everything is accessible everywhere, no matter where I am. Remote development is a simple as VS Code Remote SSH. Files/media/etc are also readily available. This is a thin client approach, and really opens up my options.

ihattendorf 4y ago
Do you ever find yourself without reliable internet connection and unable to develop/watch media/etc.? Any issues with data caps?
- nickstinemates 4y ago
  Not really. I am very far away from home right now - live in SF bay area, on a trip in northern Alaska. Have 2 cellphone providers, Google Fi and Verizon. Between the two even when in Denali national forest I had cell reception. Spent the afternoon yesterday writing code, had zero issues. Airplanes are hit or miss, but can take advantage of HN/reddit reading time or read a book (preferred) if access is limited. As for data caps, no issues at all. Family of 5 on unlimited internet plan. The 5gbps internet I have is mostly underutilized in terms of 95% usage, but fully saturated when transferring big files between different devices.
  - nickstinemates 4y ago
    Fate is funny. I just received an alert that there's a power outage at home. UPS is keeping things alive for a bit, but given PG&E's track record....... Annoying!

ihattendorf 4y ago

Do you ever find yourself without reliable internet connection and unable to develop/watch media/etc.? Any issues with data caps?

nickstinemates 4y ago
Not really. I am very far away from home right now - live in SF bay area, on a trip in northern Alaska. Have 2 cellphone providers, Google Fi and Verizon. Between the two even when in Denali national forest I had cell reception. Spent the afternoon yesterday writing code, had zero issues. Airplanes are hit or miss, but can take advantage of HN/reddit reading time or read a book (preferred) if access is limited. As for data caps, no issues at all. Family of 5 on unlimited internet plan. The 5gbps internet I have is mostly underutilized in terms of 95% usage, but fully saturated when transferring big files between different devices.
- nickstinemates 4y ago
  Fate is funny. I just received an alert that there's a power outage at home. UPS is keeping things alive for a bit, but given PG&E's track record....... Annoying!