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Re: Ask HN: Do you use your personal computer for programming?

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Post by check1234123 » Mon, May 30, 2022, 5:41 PM UTC

mark_l_watson wrote: post #6

I bought a personal MacBook Pro M1, and last year there was a 1 month wait list. I ended up buying not from Apple but from my local independent Mac store: they only had 8G models in stock. Anyway, I do Common Lisp, deep learning, and Swift dev on it with no problems. I would rather have 16G, but 8G is working for me.

Thank you for answering. I just feel like getting 16GB version doesn't sound as appealing in terms of price. Another question: does your MBP swaps a lot? I've heard that SSD wears off much more quickly on M1 so that is also another concerning point.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use your personal computer for programming?

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Post by mark_l_watson » Mon, May 30, 2022, 5:46 PM UTC

check1234123 wrote: post #11

mark_l_watson wrote: post #6

I bought a personal MacBook Pro M1, and last year there was a 1 month wait list. I ended up buying not from Apple but from my local independent Mac store: they only had 8G models in stock. Anyway, I do Common Lisp, deep learning, and Swift dev on it with no problems. I would rather have 16G, but 8G is working for me.

Thank you for answering. I just feel like getting 16GB version doesn't sound as appealing in terms of price. Another question: does your MBP swaps a lot? I've heard that SSD wears off much more quickly on M1 so that is also another concerning point.

I don't notice much swapping when running 'top'.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use your personal computer for programming?

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Post by DamonHD » Tue, May 31, 2022, 9:52 PM UTC

check1234123 wrote: post #9

DamonHD wrote: post #2

I do have 16GB in my MBA(s), but unless you are running huge DBs or editing big videos, or have hundreds of browser tabs open, or like running huge (Java) virtual machines, etc, then you may never notice the difference between 8GB and 16GB.

I am a Java developer (unfortunately :)) but I don't think I will be running anything extremely demanding on my personal laptop. I might rent a VPS and ssh into it for a heavy stuff. Not sure about how much it would cost.

I like Java, and I squeeze various Java servers and cron jobs etc into 1GB RPis, so there is hope at 8GB!