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Ask HN: Which MacBook do you use for development?

2 points by yawboakye 13y ago

Scottymeuk 13y ago
13" i7 Non-Retina
- yawboakye 13y ago
  Any reason you prefer non-Retina?
momo-reina 13y ago
13" 2011 Air, dev work done in Arch Linux run through VBox.
pmcpinto 13y ago
13'' 2013 Pro
rexpi0 13y ago
15" 2013 MacBook Pro with Retina Display plus Thunderbolt display
royka118 13y ago
13" 2013 macbook air, used to use a Ubuntu VM but switched to just using OS X
napolux 13y ago
15" early-2011 non-retina MBPRO with i7 and 8GB of RAM with OSX 10.9 I'm planning an SSD upgrade, within 1 year from now.
pedalpete 13y ago
Why do you ask? I've got a 2011 11" air, but my main machine is a Lenovo U260, which is my favorite.
- yawboakye 13y ago
  I have a MBPro Retina and I'm not enjoying developing on it much like I did on my Ubuntu box. I wanted to know what developers on Mac used.
  - pedalpete 13y ago
    Is it really the hardware that is making the difference though? I suspect it would be the change in OS is the biggest change (unless you're running Ubuntu on your mac)
    - yawboakye 13y ago
      Not really. I sold my Mac to use the Ubuntu box so I'm kind of familiar with the OS. The problem for me is the display. I'm weirdly obsessed with "beautiful" code. By beautiful I mean code that looks elegant in the text editor. If I'm fiddling with my text editor I'm either changing fonts or color schemes to get the best view for the code.
morkfromork 13y ago
15" 2013 MacBook Pro with Retina Display + 22" secondary display + PC keyboard & logitech mouse
ScottWhigham 13y ago
As a late 2013 Macbook user, I'm trying to grasp the point of this question. I could see asking in a poll, for example. Or I can understand you telling us what you do, that you are searching for a new laptop, and then asking what we do + use so that you could find people who do the same things as you and see what they use. But to just ask "Which MacBook do you use for development?" - it just seems like you left a lot on the table. Development is a very broad term. I might "develop" an HTML-only website, for example, and just write a little JS here and there. I pull up fiddler/etc and that's it. But I "develop". If I give you my Macbook specs, that doesn't help you if you are a more rigorous dev.
marveller 13y ago
13" 2013 macbook air, thinking about installing Ubuntu or Mint Linux which I think is much more flexible and open.
farabove 13y ago
15" 2013 MacBook Pro with Retina Display + Thunderbolt display. OSX and Ubuntu VM, can't deside what is best of Ubuntu and OSX. Used a MacBook Air 11" before the 15", I miss it :/ Any one dual booting Ubuntu and OSX?

2 points by yawboakye 13y ago

Scottymeuk 13y ago

13" i7 Non-Retina

yawboakye 13y ago
Any reason you prefer non-Retina?

momo-reina 13y ago

13" 2011 Air, dev work done in Arch Linux run through VBox.

pmcpinto 13y ago

13'' 2013 Pro

rexpi0 13y ago

15" 2013 MacBook Pro with Retina Display plus Thunderbolt display

royka118 13y ago

13" 2013 macbook air, used to use a Ubuntu VM but switched to just using OS X

napolux 13y ago

15" early-2011 non-retina MBPRO with i7 and 8GB of RAM with OSX 10.9 I'm planning an SSD upgrade, within 1 year from now.

pedalpete 13y ago

Why do you ask? I've got a 2011 11" air, but my main machine is a Lenovo U260, which is my favorite.

yawboakye 13y ago
I have a MBPro Retina and I'm not enjoying developing on it much like I did on my Ubuntu box. I wanted to know what developers on Mac used.
- pedalpete 13y ago
  Is it really the hardware that is making the difference though? I suspect it would be the change in OS is the biggest change (unless you're running Ubuntu on your mac)
  - yawboakye 13y ago
    Not really. I sold my Mac to use the Ubuntu box so I'm kind of familiar with the OS. The problem for me is the display. I'm weirdly obsessed with "beautiful" code. By beautiful I mean code that looks elegant in the text editor. If I'm fiddling with my text editor I'm either changing fonts or color schemes to get the best view for the code.

morkfromork 13y ago

15" 2013 MacBook Pro with Retina Display + 22" secondary display + PC keyboard & logitech mouse

ScottWhigham 13y ago

As a late 2013 Macbook user, I'm trying to grasp the point of this question. I could see asking in a poll, for example. Or I can understand you telling us what you do, that you are searching for a new laptop, and then asking what we do + use so that you could find people who do the same things as you and see what they use. But to just ask "Which MacBook do you use for development?" - it just seems like you left a lot on the table. Development is a very broad term. I might "develop" an HTML-only website, for example, and just write a little JS here and there. I pull up fiddler/etc and that's it. But I "develop". If I give you my Macbook specs, that doesn't help you if you are a more rigorous dev.

marveller 13y ago

13" 2013 macbook air, thinking about installing Ubuntu or Mint Linux which I think is much more flexible and open.

farabove 13y ago

15" 2013 MacBook Pro with Retina Display + Thunderbolt display. OSX and Ubuntu VM, can't deside what is best of Ubuntu and OSX. Used a MacBook Air 11" before the 15", I miss it :/ Any one dual booting Ubuntu and OSX?