[LRUG] MacBook for Ruby dev work

[Ian Moss]

Hi,

Does anyone currently use a machine other than an Apple based product?

I run unbuntu on a ThinkPad, and enjoy using it. Quite like it when I
meet others with one too, though we're pretty rare. Keep meaning to try
mint, but havn't got around to it yet.

Cheers, Ian.
 
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----- Original message -----
From: Matthew Rudy Jacobs <matthewrudyjacobs at gmail.com>
To: London Ruby Users Group <chat at lists.lrug.org>
Subject: Re: [LRUG] MacBook for Ruby dev work
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 12:27:29 +0800
 
Our CTO bought the 12" Macbook bought last year,
and it struggles viewing our Trello projects on Chrome
(we have a lot of cards)
 
He doesn't recommend it!
 
 
 
On 19 July 2016 at 08:01, Jim Myhrberg <contact at jimeh.me> wrote:
> I know a couple of people who use plain MacBooks for work, I'll try
> and get a hold of them to see if they want to chime in.
>
> Personally, while it's not a plain MacBook, I've been using a 2012
> MacBook Air (dual-core 2.0GHz i7, 8GB RAM) for the past 4 years as my
> main machine for all development work. It's fine, and still does a
> good job. CPU isn't always as fast as I'd like it to be, but 95% of
> the time it's enough.
>
> As far as I recall the first version of the plain MacBook was about
> equivalent to the maxed out 2011 Air. And I believe the recently
> updated MacBook brings performance up close to the 2012 Air I have.
>
> As for what I do, Emacs is my editor, I run mysql, redis and
> elasticsearch in Docker Beta, and most of my work is Ruby. Basic Rails
> apps takes a few seconds to boot, while more typical large ones are
> around 10-15 seconds.
>
> And more recently I've been on a Microservice project, where booting
> everything locally kicks up around 30 separate Ruby processes. That
> boot up is really the only time the CPU is painful as things kind of
> freeze for 10-30 seconds. But once it's all up and running everything
> is fine.
>
> And on top of that I run Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Skype, and more than
> a handful other apps too at all times.
>
> Only reason I haven't gotten a MacBook myself is that it's a lot of
> money for something that's roughly the same as the Air I already have.
> If I'm gonna upgrade, the idea is it'd be an actual upgrade.
>
> However if I was in your position and offered a choice between a
> MacBook Pro and a MacBook at work, it might be difficult to say no to
> the MacBook I think. Unless the MBP was a 13-inch retina with fully
> max specs of course.
>
> Best of luck :)
>
>
>
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2016, 23:02 Andi Studer, <andi.studer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone have first hand experience in using a MacBook for Ruby
>> dev work?
>>
>> I am being offered new hardware at work, and can't make up my mind
>> between trusty steed MacBook Pro and feather weight MacBook.
>>
>> My setup is fairly standard. I use Atom as editor, my projects need
>> local PostgresSQL and ElasticSearch servers and I'd like to run
>> DockerBeta.
>>
>> Feedback welcome
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