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Re: Big data on the cheapest MacBook

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Post by franktankbank »

kingnothing wrote: post #131
butILoveLife wrote: post #105

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Maybe it's an excellent experience these days, but every time I've tried Linux on desktop over the past 25 years I get burned. Maybe it works for a while, then your NIC driver gets borked and you spend 2 days trying to get it working again. Or some update goes sideways and you lose the GUI, launching only into a terminal. It's always something. And laptops have even less common hardware than desktops. On the other ha…

FWIW I have had no issues on a thinkpad for past 10 years running standard linux distros. I think it may come down to a combo of os and particular mb/laptop which is pretty easy to find recommendations.

Re: Big data on the cheapest MacBook

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Post by embedding-shape »

joe_mamba wrote: post #137
coldtea wrote: post #125

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delete pls

I dunno, I'm more afraid of the syndrome where people seemingly stop reading after a word or two, instead of reading/listening to the full context and then understanding that maybe they'll explain what they mean by that later on.

Besides, almost starting to feel like something LLMs cannot replicate as easily, being strongly worded, it's a bit harder to coax commercial LLMs to be "mean" towards people, so if someone is "strongly opinionated", it almost makes the comment feel more human-like. But I digress.

Re: Big data on the cheapest MacBook

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Post by kingnothing »

alex_creates wrote: post #89

Funny just yesterday I almost bought one but got cold feet and opted for a low range MacBook with M5 chip. The Apple sales rep was not convinced it would be enough when i described using it for vibecoding and deploying so kind of talked me out of getting the Neo. I normally use a mix of LLMs, then connect to Github and do a one-click deploy on CreateOS. Do you think I over-reacted? The price of the Neo is SO attracti…

Why do you need an M5 to run Cursor and a browser? Your laptop isn't doing anything in your described workflow.

Re: Big data on the cheapest MacBook

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Post by moduspol »

hermanzegerman wrote: post #123
cosmic_cheese wrote: post #120

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> And I have a hard time believing people who tell me stories about low power consumption, because no one had cared about that until Apple pretended people cared about it. That’s because battery life was pretty mediocre across the board, with Apple occasionally squeaking out a bit of an upper hand on the Air. Most laptops were in the same boat, aside from gaming and workstation laptops but battery life has never been…

To be honest I never had Issues with Battery Life on my ThinkPad. I've gotten out 10-12 hours with the 96Wh Battery and never felt the need for much more. I think most people who are so wowed by Macs bought just a garbage Windows Machine (e.g. almost everything from Asus and Acer) before and then splurged the money for a nice one, so obviously it's so much better in comparison.

How heavy is that ThinkPad?

Re: Big data on the cheapest MacBook

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Post by butILoveLife »

kingnothing wrote: post #131
butILoveLife wrote: post #105

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Maybe it's an excellent experience these days, but every time I've tried Linux on desktop over the past 25 years I get burned. Maybe it works for a while, then your NIC driver gets borked and you spend 2 days trying to get it working again. Or some update goes sideways and you lose the GUI, launching only into a terminal. It's always something. And laptops have even less common hardware than desktops. On the other ha…

I'd be willing to gamble that you used Debian-family. Debian is outdated linux. It is literally designed to be 2 years outdated upon release.

Use Fedora. Its up to date.

Note that Fedora is NOT Arch.

Re: Big data on the cheapest MacBook

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Post by dwedge »

butILoveLife wrote: post #105

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> And I have a hard time believing people who tell me stories about low power consumption, because no one had cared about that until Apple pretended people cared about it.

I haven't packed a charger for the day for 3 years. I can work in coffee shops or on the couch for over 6 hours without even thinking about charging. I'm sorry but if you haven't tried the M* macbooks you don't know what you're criticising.

Re: Big data on the cheapest MacBook

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Post by coldtea »

eru wrote: post #104
rob wrote: post #62

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It's starting to show its age, but I've been using a 2019 MacBook Pro with the Intel chip and 16GB of memory. Still handles multiple terminal sessions with Claude Code and Codex simultaneously, building in Xcode, running Docker in the background, etc. (Maybe the fans sometimes sound like they're a jet engine taking off…) Finally just put an order in for a new 16" MBP M5 Max with 48GB memory only because it looks like…

Well, Claude Cod and Codex should be doing most of their heavy lifting in the cloud?

The AI part yes. But they also use quite inefficient rendering on the cli.

Re: Big data on the cheapest MacBook

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Post by neom »

butILoveLife wrote: post #110
onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #65

This is awesome. I wish more companies would do showcases like this of what kind of load you can expect from commodity-ish hardware.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes."

Re: Big data on the cheapest MacBook

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Post by butILoveLife »

f6v wrote: post #127
butILoveLife wrote: post #110

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I never met someone using Apple laptops professionally who thought it was a status symbol. I only keep hearing this from non-Apple users.

Its because its frowned upon to say it out loud.

Think of the people who buy fancy cars and pretend they bought it for other reasons than status.

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