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For me, the value proposition is spending less on hardware for similar benefits. It's a lot easier to work with 8GB of RAM when your IDE uses 1GB to be a thin
by TheCapeGreek 3y ago
For me, the value proposition is spending less on hardware for similar benefits.
It's a lot easier to work with 8GB of RAM when your IDE uses 1GB to be a thin client instead of 4GB (this was roughly my experience using Jetbrains Gateway vs native PHPStorm).
- realharo 3y agoRAM is really cheap when you're not buying it from Apple.
- nateb2022 3y agoThere are a lot of laptops with soldered RAM.
- realharo 3y agoThat's a shame, it's a bit weird seeing someone having to limit what software they can use, and looking to offload things onto external machines, over something you can get 4 times the amount of (32 GB) for under $50 (https://www.amazon.com/s?k=sodimm+ddr4+32gb https://www.amazon.com/s?k=sodimm+ddr4+32gb)
- TheCapeGreek 3y agoFor the price point of entry level M1 Air or Pro, there is nothing that competes on battery life. I'm in South Africa, with spotty electricity. I need a laptop that can sustain work for 4-6h without charge without spending an extra arm. Anything non-Apple that does this competes on the top end range, not entry level. Cheaping out on hardware here just means I need to buy bigger backup batteries, so either way I need to spend a ton of money if I really want to avoid Apple that much.
- worksonmine 3y agoAnother solution is to use an editor that doesn't rely on the browser or electron (which is just another browser). That's the main reason I switched to vim, all my tools were electron and the fan was constantly spinning. No regrets, highly recommend.
- TheCapeGreek 3y agoI'm a PHPStorm lad. I've thought about Vim over the years, but Jetbrains has been pretty great for being an all-in-one tool. IDE, git UI, database viewer, and convenient CLI. Another option I considered is Sublime, but it seems a lot of its extensions that I'd need are not very up to date.