[LRUG] MacBook for Ruby dev work

[Kenneth Lee]

A colleague has one and he's reasonably happy with it. One drawback (nice
problem to have) is this office is full of Apple 27" Cinema displays and
there is currently no way with any permutation of adaptor(s) to convert
USB-C to a thunderbolt/Mini Displayport. So he's stuck with a Lenovo screen
using a HDMI adaptor.

The lack of a USB port is a royal pain.


On 19 July 2016 at 11:58, javier ramirez <javier.ramirez.gomara at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Also using Ubuntu here. Started doing Ruby/Rails development on a windows
> machine on 2006 and a couple of years later decided I to switch to
> something more proper. I took a look at Apple but saw you had lots of
> restrictions on what to install -java version, for example- at least back
> then. So I went for Ubuntu and I've been quite happy with it for the last 8
> years. Apart from being perfect for Ruby/Rails I like the fact my machine
> has almost the same architecture as my servers, so less surprises there.
>
> I've been doing much more big data, cloud, and distributed systems work
> for the last few years too (I used to do almost 100% rails to maybe 10%
> rails, 90% other stuff) and for those use cases I think Linux is superior
> to any other OS. Think Docker, for example, it was available only for Linux
> systems for a long time before you could use it on Mac or Windows.
>
> My machines have always looked worse and weighted more than the Apple
> alternative, although the ThinkPad Carbon and the Dell XPS are changing
> that. But battery-wise Linux is terrible and your battery will drain way
> faster than on an Apple machine (or faster than running Windows on the same
> laptop). I travel a lot and battery is a major annoyance to me. Even so I
> am sticking with Ubuntu, but if that's also your case you might want to be
> sure you choose Apple or at the very least a laptop with a decent battery
> and SSD only.
>
> Cheers,
>
> j
>
>
> On 19/07/16 10:35, Paul Battley wrote:
>
> On 19 July 2016 at 10:09, Ian Moss <hello at ianmoss.com> <hello at ianmoss.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> I use Ubuntu (Lubuntu, to be precise, because the interface is more
> boring) 14.04 LTS (again, because stability is boring) on a ThinkPad
> x220. The keyboard is really nice, and it works fine for me! After
> working alongside people using OS X, I'm pretty sure that apt is less
> hassle than Homebrew.
>
> My computer cost £260 refurbished, plus a bit extra for an SSD and 16
> GB of RAM. It's not as slim as a MacBook Pro, but it weighs about the
> same, and I probably wouldn't be too devastated if I dropped or lost
> it. In fact, it's cheap enough that I bought another identical one to
> leave at client sites instead of carrying it there and back each day.
>
> The only thing that might prompt me to upgrade at this point would be
> a higher resolution screen, but as I mostly use it plugged into an
> external monitor that's not a huge issue.
>
> Paul.
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