Yeah, given the sheer cpu/ram/m.2 power of what even a tiny NUC provides, with modular, replaceable monitor(s)/keyboard/mouse/USB(3/C/Thunderbolt)/HDMI etc, for less than a Mac, I am unable to understand the appeal of a laptop. And I use a i7/64GB/1TB NUC for traveling! I use a twice as powerful Ryzen rack server for my office dev box. 5m extension cables so the noise is in a closet.
I have no problems with external drives. Is this a Mac thing too?
32 years ago as a fresh out I got a government job with an SGI box with an enormous monitor. I stare in wonder at the future, right now. It sure doesn't look like happiness.
I live in a small apartment with my partner who also works from home. We don’t have enough space to dedicate to two desks. We also travel a lot, so I need to be able to take my work with me.
It is a weird thing to me that a minimal impact lifestyle[0] requires a very constrained and expensive computer ecosystem to facilitate unrealized happiness.
We have a small, nearly off the grid cottage (septic, water from the lake, no roads, etc.). It has an internet connection via a Ubiquiti antenna. Not enough room for two desks there either.
I got the cheapest M1 Mac Mini when it came out. I got two m.2 NVME drives hooked up to it (1.92TB & 1TB) and a 1TB SATA SSD and a 64GB microSD card along with the built in 250GB drive.
No issues. Never have ram issues either with the 8GB. I can compile stuff. Code. Have tabs in my browser. Do stuff in Logic. Edit video. Emulate old computers and systems for games. Dosbox. Parsec to my Windows desktop. Do pretty much anything. Got it hooked up to my 55" 4K HDR TV. Bluetooth Logitech keyboard with touchpad. It's great!
8GB ram, only Apple could pull that off. What is it, 2008?
My work stack is tight on 32gb (yeah, it is what it is), that simply wouldn't fly for me. 8gb, especially with all the memory used by the os on MacOs, there's just no way.
That’s fine. The criteria people have for being software engineers is different. I just gave my personal opinion. I don’t think there is a right or wrong.
M1 is very impressive. But I hate macOS as much, if not more than, you hate Windows. My Threadripper makes me very happy.
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