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<body><div style="font-family:Tahoma;">Hi,<br><br>Does anyone currently use a machine other than an Apple based product?<br><br>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.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Ian.</div>
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<div>From: Matthew Rudy Jacobs <<a href="mailto:matthewrudyjacobs@gmail.com">matthewrudyjacobs@gmail.com</a>><br></div>
<div>To: London Ruby Users Group <<a href="mailto:chat@lists.lrug.org">chat@lists.lrug.org</a>><br></div>
<div>Subject: Re: [LRUG] MacBook for Ruby dev work<br></div>
<div>Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 12:27:29 +0800<br></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Tahoma;">Our CTO bought the 12" Macbook bought last year,<br></div>
<div>and it struggles viewing our Trello projects on Chrome<br></div>
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<div>He doesn't recommend it!<br></div>
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<div defang_data-gmailquote="yes"><div style="font-family:Tahoma;">On 19 July 2016 at 08:01, Jim Myhrberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:contact@jimeh.me">contact@jimeh.me</a>></span> wrote:<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma;">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></div>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma;">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></div>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma;">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></div>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma;">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></div>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma;">And on top of that I run Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Skype, and more than a handful other apps too at all times.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma;">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></div>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma;">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></div>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma;">Best of luck :) <br></div>
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<div defang_data-gmailquote="yes"><div><div><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 18 Jul 2016, 23:02 Andi Studer, <<a href="mailto:andi.studer@gmail.com">andi.studer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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<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. <br></div>
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<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. <br></div>
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<div>Feedback welcome<br></div>
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