[LRUG] MacBook for Ruby dev work

[Matthew Rudy Jacobs]

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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