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Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs

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Post by mbroncano »

thrower123 wrote: post #74
mbroncano wrote: post #34

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I’ve been using exclusively BT keyboards and mice for 10+ years ... what’s exactly wrong with them?

I've only had one bluetooth device, a Fitbit, that actually worked with any kind of reliability. From time to time I still have to bang it on the side of my phone to get it to pair back up.

I’m a massive fan of Fitbit devices, they work great. But the same can be said of my Plantronics BT headphones, which I’ve used daily for almost three years, same for magic keyboards, mice and touchpad of different generations. Truth to be told, any cheap device that wouldn’t work reliably (I can think of a few BT headphones in the past) I just tossed or returned when possible.

Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs

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Post by baroffoos »

mbroncano wrote: post #34
thrower123 wrote: post #27

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That would be fine if Bluetooth worked... I swear, the old IR wireless keyboards and mice were more reliable.

I’ve been using exclusively BT keyboards and mice for 10+ years ... what’s exactly wrong with them?

They always catch me by surprise when they go flat. Also about twice this year my mouse has just not connected for some reason and I have to use the laptop trackpad to fix it. This would be a big issue on a desktop. And if I have to have a cable available to charge it I might as well just have a corded mouse.

The only time I find a wireless mouse to be better is for use with my laptop because its easier to bring to meeting rooms. At home I use wired since it seems all gaming mice have awful battery life. This logitech one I use at work has 70 days which works for me but every few months I have to run around and find a cable which isn't nice to use since usb cables tend to be a lot stiffer than mice cables

Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs

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Post by edude03 »

lliamander wrote: post #49

Slightly off-topic, but who here uses a HEDT (high-end desktop) or workstation computer for software development? Does it make a significant difference in comparison with a standard business laptop?

I do, and it makes a significant difference in most of my workloads. A lot of my work requires testing bleeding edge software, for example, applying a small patch to the latest version of kubernetes then running a small virtualized cluster locally to make sure it works.

Even if not for that, I tend to cross compile a lot of software since all the engineers at my company use macs for software development but we deploy to linux servers, so often I end up building rust binaries for linux and it's fairly computationally intense.

For an anecdote, on my work laptop (i9/32Gb/512SSD 2018 15" MBP) I can compile the dev environment from scratch in 40 minutes whereas it takes 4 hours on the company standard dual core/8gb/256gb 2015 13" macbook

Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs

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Post by arcticfox »

lliamander wrote: post #75
valbaca wrote: post #70

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My company provides a pretty standard laptop, but they rarely have more than 2 cores. In native app development, Android Studio and Xcode are severely bottlenecked by 2 cores. The difference between my laptop and my Mac Mini (6 cores) is astounding. The difference between a build taking 6x minutes and 1x minutes is more than just 1/6 because it goes from "Well, guess I'll check email/messenger/HN real quick." to taki…

Slow builds can definitely break concentration. I'm on a dual core as well, although most new business laptops come with 4 cores. My build times aren't as long, because I'm working with Java-based microservices, so each service takes a minute or so to build (with tests) but even that delay can break concentration. Turning off tests helps, but then you don't always have the immediate feedback of the test results (and…

A little off topic, but what does your microservice build with tests look like? Trying to figure out what I need to do if I want to try microservices correctly...

Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs

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Post by MuffinFlavored »

lliamander wrote: post #49

Slightly off-topic, but who here uses a HEDT (high-end desktop) or workstation computer for software development? Does it make a significant difference in comparison with a standard business laptop?

Reading the replies to this make me very grateful that I just run a couple of Docker containers for local Postgres/Redis along with some non-compiled node.js
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