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What I noticed was that only two or three of them use desktop computers - the rest are on laptops with external displays. No laptop on the market today has en
by bengl3rt 15y ago
What I noticed was that only two or three of them use desktop computers - the rest are on laptops with external displays.
No laptop on the market today has enough storage capacity or RAM (save for the MBPs that can take 16GB I suppose) to be my only computer. I do a mix of iOS and web and systems development - not too different of a workload from these guys, I'm sure. I've also noticed laptops slow down a fair bit when you plug in an external display and make the GPU work overtime pushing all those pixels. So, what gives? Have these guys just never tried working on a maxed-out desktop machine so they don't know how good it is, and they just assume that waiting around for your computer to do stuff is normal and acceptable?
Another nail in the coffin, I suppose...
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- swah 15y agoThe experience I've been reading is the opposite: that folks can do web development in a Macbook Air and love it. What do you use 16 GB of RAM for?
- bengl3rt 15y agoI'm always running Redis and Mongo and Memcache and Postgres and Xcode and the iOS simulator and Mail and Skype and etc... Local server stack + dev tools + collaboration tools, essentially. SSD helps, as swapping fast is better than swapping slow, but best is not swapping at all.
- FireBeyond 15y agoGranted, you did mention iOS work, which limits your choices, but there are several laptops there that absolutely can compete as desktop replacements, including one I've used: Dell Precision M6600, Core i7-2820QM 2.3GHz,16GB (can take 32GB), graphics cards up to Nvidia Quadro 5010M 4GB, 1080p resolution display, SATA 3 SSDs