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This is a pretty big deal for designers and developers who love dual-display setups, e.g. for looking at code and docs at the same time. Until now you had to lu
by gaborcselle 14y ago
This is a pretty big deal for designers and developers who love dual-display setups, e.g. for looking at code and docs at the same time. Until now you had to lug around a 15" MacBook Pro to get dual external monitor support.
- Ralith 14y agoOr use something other than a MacBook. That's an option too.
- gaborcselle 14y agoThe vast majority of developers I know use some version of the MacBook. (However, that could be the San Francisco / New York tech bubble that I live in.)
- Ralith 14y agoAnecdotes are generally worse than meaningless. Still, in the spirit of things, I don't think I know a single MacBook user; sampling biases clearly exist. Tangentally: One is inclined to wonder, if dual display support is such a big deal, why they all use hardware incapable of it.
- catch23 14y agodo your developer friends use linux laptops, or windows running linux vm?
- fooyc 14y agoOne MacBook to rule them all
- flatline3 14y agoI don't understand the allure of the laptop for developers. For me, performance easily beats portability. I also have a laptop, but I'd never use it as a primary desktop.
- 13rules 14y agoI run my own company and have a home office and a regular office, each with a mouse, keyboard, and big monitor. With my laptop I can just take it back and forth - all files come with me and the machine is in the exact state when I boot it up at home as when it was at the office. If I need to go out of town, I just take the laptop with me and I can do everything I would normally do, just with a smaller screen. At least for web development, speed usually isn't an issue ... putting in an SSD drive a year or so ago, though, was the best thing I did - very noticeable speed increase! So, for me it's a convenience factor.
- mkaltenecker 14y agoAre there ultrabooks with dual monitor support? It seems to me that the graphics hardware is the limit (and all ultrabooks use the same one).
- Ralith 14y agoIt's fallacious to assume that the majority, or even a sizable proportion of, developers use a portable device of any kind as their primary machine.
- mkaltenecker 14y agoSure, be the topic of the discussion were developers who do.
- Ralith 14y agoWhat makes you think that? So far the groups of developers that have been called out are "Developers" and "Developers who love dual-display setups." I don't see anything about mobile devices except that gaborcselle seems to think [almost] everybody uses MacBooks, which is the point I'm questioning.
- mkaltenecker 14y agoI think it’s pretty clear from the context that developers who would like to use a MBA were meant.
- jinushaun 14y agoBut then, instead of lugging around a heavy/bulky MBP, you're lugging around a heavy/bulky PC laptop. Problem not solved.
- scott_meade 14y agoOr use Plugable's UGA-2K-A USB to VGA/DVI/HDMI adapters for Multiple Monitors. I've been running three external 1920x1200's off my MacBook Air. http://twitpic.com/9yr3tr/full http://twitpic.com/9yr3tr/full Not Thunderbolt nor 2,560x1,440, yet multiple monitors nonetheless.
- swah 14y agoThat's a lot of pixels with integrated graphics :) (IRRC). Don't you find the brightness from the 2nd/3rd displays causes eye strain?
- rograndom 14y agoIt's a USB video adapter if I'm reading the product page right http://plugable.com/products/uga-2k-a/ http://plugable.com/products/uga-2k-a/