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This is true. I'm a developer (Clojure mostly) and: * I had a Mac Pro until 2016, sold it and used the money to buy a second monitor * I had an iMac 2019-2022

by jwr 3y ago

This is true. I'm a developer (Clojure mostly) and: * I had a Mac Pro until 2016, sold it and used the money to buy a second monitor * I had an iMac 2019-2022, sold it because I bought an M1 MacBook Pro 16", which was faster Right now I very much enjoy a single-computer life, much less overhead. I anticipate I'll want to upgrade to an M3 MacBook Pro, but I don't see a need to use anything else, especially as the CPU (what I care about!) performance isn't significantly better in the Mac Studios or Mac Pros.

satysin 3y ago
Indeed. I have an M2 Max MacBook Pro with 64GB and holy shit this thing just doesn't break a sweat for even heavy workload and is still small enough to be my every day laptop I can take with me to do basic work on when I travel about. I used to need a big desktop/workstation for "real work" and had an ultrabook for all the related admin stuff that I like to do out of the office for sanity. Two machines isn't difficult to manage but it can be a bit annoying. Having one machine that can do everything without compromise is a dream. Not to mention this one MacBook Pro, while expensive, is still cheaper than what I used to spend on a desktop+ultrabook setup. It is so close to perfect I pretty much have nothing to complain about which as my wife will attest to is unheard of for me when it come to computer :) I had toyed with the idea of getting an Air and a Mac Studio and continuing to work in my old two machine way but with how good the MacBook Pro's are I realised I no longer needed to do that and I am very happy I made the decision to just go all in with a good MacBook Pro and not think about it anymore.
- matwood 3y ago
  I have an M1 Max MBP w/ 64gb and I'm like you. Short of this thing breaking, I'm not sure what Apple can do to make me want to upgrade. It's very fast, does everything I need it to easily, has great battery life, etc... Maybe if they add something like cellular to the MBP I might be tempted, but even then wifi is ubiquitous now.
jmkni 3y ago
I don't think I'll ever have another desktop computer, currently rocking a 14" M1 Pro with 32GB of Ram and I do FE web dev, backend dev (node/C#), some native Android/iOS dev, run docker containers, etc, etc It just handles everything I throw at it with ease, I honestly don't think I'd benefit from upgrading to any of the M2s, or even a higher spec M1/more RAM.
- 0xblinq 3y ago
  I said exactly the same thing about 25 years ago when I got my second computer, a pentium 90 with 256MB of ram and 540MB hard drive. Believe me, at some point your computer will be slow and old.

by jwr 3y ago

satysin 3y ago

Indeed. I have an M2 Max MacBook Pro with 64GB and holy shit this thing just doesn't break a sweat for even heavy workload and is still small enough to be my every day laptop I can take with me to do basic work on when I travel about. I used to need a big desktop/workstation for "real work" and had an ultrabook for all the related admin stuff that I like to do out of the office for sanity. Two machines isn't difficult to manage but it can be a bit annoying. Having one machine that can do everything without compromise is a dream. Not to mention this one MacBook Pro, while expensive, is still cheaper than what I used to spend on a desktop+ultrabook setup. It is so close to perfect I pretty much have nothing to complain about which as my wife will attest to is unheard of for me when it come to computer :) I had toyed with the idea of getting an Air and a Mac Studio and continuing to work in my old two machine way but with how good the MacBook Pro's are I realised I no longer needed to do that and I am very happy I made the decision to just go all in with a good MacBook Pro and not think about it anymore.

matwood 3y ago
I have an M1 Max MBP w/ 64gb and I'm like you. Short of this thing breaking, I'm not sure what Apple can do to make me want to upgrade. It's very fast, does everything I need it to easily, has great battery life, etc... Maybe if they add something like cellular to the MBP I might be tempted, but even then wifi is ubiquitous now.

jmkni 3y ago

I don't think I'll ever have another desktop computer, currently rocking a 14" M1 Pro with 32GB of Ram and I do FE web dev, backend dev (node/C#), some native Android/iOS dev, run docker containers, etc, etc It just handles everything I throw at it with ease, I honestly don't think I'd benefit from upgrading to any of the M2s, or even a higher spec M1/more RAM.

0xblinq 3y ago
I said exactly the same thing about 25 years ago when I got my second computer, a pentium 90 with 256MB of ram and 540MB hard drive. Believe me, at some point your computer will be slow and old.