<div dir="ltr">I don't think a MacBook is a suitable machine for a developer. It's good for extreme portability and very light workloads. I might recommend it to my mother for instance. However, the fanless design necessitates an extremely under-powered CPU that will just never be competitive, even with an Air (although they'll probably be killing the Air). I understand Apple's mentality with the new MB, but I think they took this a step too far. That extra millimeter of thin-ness and utter silence might go over well with consumers, but I can't recommend it for anyone doing anything serious with a computer.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 9:27 PM, Matthew Rudy Jacobs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthewrudyjacobs@gmail.com" target="_blank">matthewrudyjacobs@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Our CTO bought the 12" Macbook bought last year,<div>and it struggles viewing our Trello projects on Chrome</div><div>(we have a lot of cards)</div><div><br></div><div>He doesn't recommend it!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 July 2016 at 08:01, Jim Myhrberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:contact@jimeh.me" target="_blank">contact@jimeh.me</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>And on top of that I run Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Skype, and more than a handful other apps too at all times.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Best of luck :) <br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 18 Jul 2016, 23:02 Andi Studer, <<a href="mailto:andi.studer@gmail.com" target="_blank">andi.studer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Does anyone have first hand experience in using a MacBook for Ruby dev work? <div><br></div><div>I am being offered new hardware at work, and can't make up my mind between trusty steed MacBook Pro and feather weight MacBook. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Feedback welcome</div></div></div></div><span>
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