Thinkpad T series maybe, I have a t480s, it's a workhorse.
Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?
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Re: Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?
#612Earlier quoted context omitted.
Macs have a certain set of features which is not even close to being matched by any other laptop, as far as I'm aware. Not everyone values these features, and for them, the Mac is just overpriced. - solid and beautiful chassis, no plastic-y uninspired 2008-Dell design here. - large, beautiful, high-DPI screen looks great and has crisp text. You can seamless rescale the UI to get effectively a 17" resolution or 13", d…
> some girl did not know how to free up disk space Would you reconsider this wording, so that we can focus on your story rather than a flippant mention of their gender? “Some girl” is definitely not nice phrasing and only furthers gender stereotypes.
//Would you reconsider this wording, so that we can focus on your story rather than a flippant mention of their gender?
I read the same post and I only focussed on the story and flippant mention on gender never crossed my mind until you brought it up..
Re: Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?
#613Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I don't think a lot of developers are buying macs due to marketing. I've never seen a developer with a macbook in my country. The idea sounds absurd. Unless you need Final Cut or whatever, Apple is considered a status brand in many parts of the world.
In where I live there's a ton of devs using macs. The idea sounds absurd, too. Even more absurd when you realize they're mostly developing stuff that will ultimately run on Linux.
Working for a pretty big corporation (20000ish employees), the reason for this I hear from our IT/Workplace Services team is that Apple laptops actually integrate with the existing Windows-centric IT infra reasonably well with regards to account management, hdd encryption, endpoint protection, etc. This is not true for really any flavor of Linux, or so I'm told.
So it's either a HP ZBook or a Macbook, and a big chunk of our devs go with the Macbook when those are the choices.
Re: Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?
#614Earlier quoted context omitted.
Should have put that on the title I mean, it's already kind of stupid to want to avoid something the whole industry uses, from big tech to startups. In particular, when you have a very hard set of requirements that historically no one gets right except for you know who.
> I mean, it's already kind of stupid to want to avoid something the whole industry uses, from big tech to startups Windows still owns the market to a substantial degree, Macos is still a niche OS. Maybe you've seen a trend of software companies moving to Macos, but it's definitely not the standard by any means.
Have you ever been to a FAANG office ?
Or anything in San Francisco for that matter, in my time in PayPal only one dude in the whole office had a windows machine
Re: Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?
#615Earlier quoted context omitted.
Macs have a certain set of features which is not even close to being matched by any other laptop, as far as I'm aware. Not everyone values these features, and for them, the Mac is just overpriced. - solid and beautiful chassis, no plastic-y uninspired 2008-Dell design here. - large, beautiful, high-DPI screen looks great and has crisp text. You can seamless rescale the UI to get effectively a 17" resolution or 13", d…
> some girl did not know how to free up disk space Would you reconsider this wording, so that we can focus on your story rather than a flippant mention of their gender? “Some girl” is definitely not nice phrasing and only furthers gender stereotypes.
Please consider that this may be a personal problem you have. (maybe some self reflection is in order?) I didn't find the statement problematic at all.
Re: Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?
#616Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Ultimately more powerful" As a previous BSD engineer please explain further, this entire thread is just horrendous and should be downvoted to oblivion. Nobody cares what laptop you decide to use, nor are you incapable of doing your own research. My grandmother calls me for laptop recommendations. My M1 Max 14" MBP has 64gb ram, mucho cores and is the fastest machine I've used. My gaming/dev desktop is a 12core ryzen…
Different strokes for different folks. My Macbook collects dust whenever I'm home because I'd vastly prefer to do my work on a desktop Linux box. I don't have to spend my time updating coreutils, fighting Homebrew, fixing my screen sharing permissions for the 6th time this month, or really much of anything. My desktop and the systems we deploy to have almost complete parity.
> fighting Homebrew
I switched to MacPorts when Homebrew moved on from macOS Mojave... now I wish I had done so much sooner!
Re: Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?
#617I've been running Ubuntu on an LG Gram 17. Huge screen (true 17"), 18 hour battery and weighs Les than 4 lbs. It also has a metal chassis. Only device that doesn't work is the fingerprint reader.
One more very satisfied user of an LG Gram 17. A beautiful LG 2560x1600 screen, amazing (also LG) battery life, less than 3 lbs.
I really like the keyboard and touchpad, more so than on a Mac (but that's very personal). The RAM can be upgraded to 40 GB, and there is a second M.2 slot if you want disk mirroring or striping.
I run Fedora and have zero problems. (I generally upgrade 3 months after a release.)
The model that I have has a 72 Wh battery and newer 17 and 16 inch models now come with an 80 Wh battery. Mine is 3 years old now and it's aged much better than I expected. I can watch a 4K movie over a network CephFS mount and after 2 hours, my battery is at 80%.
I bought it on a whim at Costco, and I seriously think I'll get another one next time (maybe a 16"). Costco drops the prices to $350-$400 off every few months, and they're a steal for what you get.
Re: Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?
#618This seems relevant wrt Purism 14: https://www.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/my8u2l/psa_librem_1...
Re: Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?
#619Earlier quoted context omitted.
Macs have a certain set of features which is not even close to being matched by any other laptop, as far as I'm aware. Not everyone values these features, and for them, the Mac is just overpriced. - solid and beautiful chassis, no plastic-y uninspired 2008-Dell design here. - large, beautiful, high-DPI screen looks great and has crisp text. You can seamless rescale the UI to get effectively a 17" resolution or 13", d…
> some girl did not know how to free up disk space Would you reconsider this wording, so that we can focus on your story rather than a flippant mention of their gender? “Some girl” is definitely not nice phrasing and only furthers gender stereotypes.
What would you suggest to be a suitable rephrasing?
Re: Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?
#620dell xps laptops are (a) pretty nice and (b) do ship in some models with ubuntu as the main OS.
personally, i use an xps15/windows/WSL, mainly because i also use the laptop for video games and so on.