I’m at a two person company and we work fine on both Linux and Mac. There’s no need for a top end mac to do dev work, and frankly no one does a MacBook quality PC in terms of battery optimization (auto graphics switching, battery optimized web browser), ease of use (still top of the line trackpad), whole-disk-encryption, seamless sleep and wake while preserving whole disk encryption.
They designed a laptop for a laptop user whereas most PC makers have no idea what they designed their laptop for. Even if you get good PC hardware the Windows side becomes lacking because Windows has to be optimized for many use cases. Many people who don't get it are using their macbooks as desktop replacement, at which point you should probably just get a mac mini and backpack that around.
> we work fine on both Linux and Mac. There’s no need for a top end mac to do dev work
Absolutely agreed.
> frankly no one does a MacBook quality PC in terms of battery optimization (auto graphics switching, battery optimized web browser), ease of use (still top of the line trackpad), whole-disk-encryption, seamless sleep and wake while preserving whole disk encryption
I haven't had anything else for a while, but I agree. My ideal would be smooth-sailing Linux on macbook hardware. Unfortunately while it used to work, it's only gotten worse, and the pretty much deal breaker is WiFi:
> Many people who don't get it are using their macbooks as desktop replacement, at which point you should probably just get a mac mini and backpack that around.
What? No! If I was going to do that it'd be a similar SFF device, running Linux. (And more powerful for the same budget, probably.)
They designed a laptop for a laptop user whereas most PC makers have no idea what they designed their laptop for. Even if you get good PC hardware the Windows side becomes lacking because Windows has to be optimized for many use cases. Many people who don't get it are using their macbooks as desktop replacement, at which point you should probably just get a mac mini and backpack that around.