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Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by solat »

cytzol wrote: post #19

The refined scissor mechanism with 1 mm of travel delivers a responsive, comfortable, and quiet typing experience. The inverted-T arrow keys help you fly through lines of code, spreadsheets, or game environments. This isn't progress. This is the baseline. Apple have gone from bad to OK, and they're celebrating as though they've achieved something amazing.

It is progress. Apple runs a monopoly, people seem to not be able to escape (I'm on Windows) and Apple has struggled to fix an utterly broken keyboard for 3 or more years. So, finally they did this on an entry model.

Even I who gave up on Apple thought, hey what a nice machine.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by christiansakai »

twsted wrote: post #11
rvanmil wrote: post #3

Anyone here who has experience working with JS/TS development tools (vscode, yarn, webpack, Node.js etc.) on a recent MacBook Air? I wonder if the performance is noticeably worse than a 13” MacBook Pro for this type of work.

It's perfect from a performance point of view. I own the last generation (so no scissor keyboard) and I work the whole day in VSCode with JS/TS, Python, Go, Rust, etc.

how's your Rust compile time in this?

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by throw7337 »

dev_tty01 wrote: post #27
cytzol wrote: post #19

The refined scissor mechanism with 1 mm of travel delivers a responsive, comfortable, and quiet typing experience. The inverted-T arrow keys help you fly through lines of code, spreadsheets, or game environments. This isn't progress. This is the baseline. Apple have gone from bad to OK, and they're celebrating as though they've achieved something amazing.

We all (most of us anyway) wanted them to go back to the scissor design. Are we going to now complain that they did what the community has been begging them to do? Was butterfly a mistake? Yes. Were they slow to correct the issue? Yes. Now that they fixed it we should be happy about it. As far as talking about it being amazing, its called marketing spin. This is how it works. However, those two sentences do not say a…

>Now that they fixed it we should be happy about it.

No, we moved on and do not care. There are many companies that make laptops and keyboards. 5 years too late.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by mtm7 »

What's it like to develop on a MacBook Air these days? I have a 2016 13" MacBook Pro and am thinking of upgrading, but I don't know how it'll handle JS/Docker/Rails.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by leetrout »

rvanmil wrote: post #3

Anyone here who has experience working with JS/TS development tools (vscode, yarn, webpack, Node.js etc.) on a recent MacBook Air? I wonder if the performance is noticeably worse than a 13” MacBook Pro for this type of work.

Yes. It’s miserable with any substantial JS project. Those extra cores should help with the new model.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by anentropic »

chx wrote: post #23

Apple got some custom chips from Intel again. https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/specs/ ==== 1.1GHz dual-core Intel Core i3, Turbo Boost up to 3.2GHz, with 4MB L3 cache Configurable to 1.1GHz quad-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.5GHz, with 6MB L3 cache; or 1.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.8GHz, with 8MB L3 cache 8GB of 3733MHz LPDDR4X onboard memory Intel Iris Plus Graphics ==== https://ark.…

anyone know which model of Iris Plus graphics it has?

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by ehutch79 »

kasey_junk wrote: post #33
ehutch79 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A typical JS developer is not building/rebuilding docker containers constantly.

It seems pretty typical for js backend systems to be heavily containerized such that I’d say it’s approaching the default deployment mechanism.

Why would you keep rebuilding the container constantly though?

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by homarp »

solat wrote: post #31
rvanmil wrote: post #3

Anyone here who has experience working with JS/TS development tools (vscode, yarn, webpack, Node.js etc.) on a recent MacBook Air? I wonder if the performance is noticeably worse than a 13” MacBook Pro for this type of work.

While this MBA turned out really well, current Windows featuring WSL2 is quite impressive though. Having a full Ubuntu or Debian on your machine is priceless. Or you develop on a remote server, then you just need a good terminal. So currently both macOS and Windows are good for JS dev. It's a matter of taste and price.

Ubuntu works too. cf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22492223

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by api »

snemvalts wrote: post #37
solat wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While this MBA turned out really well, current Windows featuring WSL2 is quite impressive though. Having a full Ubuntu or Debian on your machine is priceless. Or you develop on a remote server, then you just need a good terminal. So currently both macOS and Windows are good for JS dev. It's a matter of taste and price.

i think most people prefer to not sell their souls for advertising when it comes to their desktop environments.

Yeah, the presence of ads on anything I've paid for instantly classifies it as "junk." Windows is now junk.
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