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I just retired my m1 air to being a server this month. They’re very capable laptops. If the neo is even comparable in spec it’s excellent for the price
Yeah! My M1 air is now my iOS build server since GH actions bill macOS mins at 10x the price.
Couls you please describe your dev process.
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My m1 air with 1TB ssd and 16GB of ram is a little champion, I use it during travel to play indie games like Hades II or Slay the Spire, and it works really well, better than my Steam Deck which broke. The only issue it really has is when I try to plug it into my docking station it struggles mightily with 2 2K screens and a 4K screen, so I just use my desktop in that case. I am jealous of my wife’s 13” M5 iPad Pro th…
> [...] and it works really well, better than my Steam Deck which broke. Well, the MacBook Air was also a lot more expensive than the Steam Deck?
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So my definition of big data was data so big it cannot be processed on a single machine in a reasonable amount of time. I guess they’re using a different definition?
“Your data isn’t big” is a good working definition of big data. Google has big data. You are not google.
Or one could define it as too big to fit on a single SSD/HDD, maybe >30TB. Still within the reach of a hobbyist, but too large to process in memory and needs special tools to work with. It doesn't have to be petabyte scale to need 'big data' tooling.
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No, you can't do real work on a $350 windows machine. No way such a setup is suitable for anything beyond browsing a tab or two and connecting to servers using SSH. And, the whole shittiness of the experience will even distract you attempting real work: the horrible touchpad, the bad screen, the forced windows updates when you trying to start the machine to do something urgent, ads in Windows, the lack of proper prog…
> No, you can't do real work on a $350 windows machine. Sigh. I mean, even absent the obvious answers[1], that's just wrong anyway. You're being a snob. Want to run WSL? Run WSL. Want to run vscode natively? Ditto. Put it on a cheap TV and run your graphical layout and 3D modelling work. I mean, obviously it does all that stuff. OBVIOUSLY , because that stuff is all cheap and easy. All the complaining you're doing is…
I’ve been tempted to buy one and do “real dev work” on it just to show people it’s not this handicapped little machine. I built multiple iOS apps and went through two start up acquisitions with my M1 MBA as my primary computer, as a developer. And the neo is better than the M1 MBA. I edited my 30-45 min long 4k race videos in FCP on that air just fine.
It’s fine to if you don’t have any memory hogging apps. But as soon as you fire up a couple demanding Docker containers you’ll feel the pain. 8GB isn’t so much RAM for some applications.
Props for identifying the issue immediately, but armed with that knowledge, why not redo the benchmark on a different instance type that has local storage? E.g. why not try a `c8id.2xlarge` or `c8id.4xlarge` (which bracket the `c6a.4xlarge`'s cost)?
I’ve been tempted to buy one and do “real dev work” on it just to show people it’s not this handicapped little machine. I built multiple iOS apps and went through two start up acquisitions with my M1 MBA as my primary computer, as a developer. And the neo is better than the M1 MBA. I edited my 30-45 min long 4k race videos in FCP on that air just fine.
I’ve been tempted to buy one and do “real dev work” on it just to show people it’s not this handicapped little machine. I built multiple iOS apps and went through two start up acquisitions with my M1 MBA as my primary computer, as a developer. And the neo is better than the M1 MBA. I edited my 30-45 min long 4k race videos in FCP on that air just fine.
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…
This is as much an indictment of AWS compute as it is anything else.
Yeah, this is really about how ludicrously overpriced big cloud is. I’ve got a first gen M1 Max and it destroys all but the largest cloud instances (that cost its entire current market value per month!), at least in compute. It’s a laptop! A decent bare metal server in a rack will destroy any laptop. It’s staggering. Jaw dropping. Bandwidth is even worse, like 10000X markup. Yet cloud is how we do things. There’s a g…
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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.