I was thinking about this the other day, I use a Mac for home and typically clients give me a PC. If it's new enough and nicely specced (screen, ram, basic CPU, nothing drastic), I'd happily work on either.
The only thing I would say is that Macs don't run Visio or Project unless you use something like Parallels. That can come up quite a lot and in one situation I was emailed a project plan and expected to feed back on it half an hour later and had to do some very quick installing
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostIf all the work is remote, build a super powerful desktop. And then play Elite Dangerous on it.
Unless going VR, and then it's just the GPU you need.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostIf all the work is remote, build a super powerful desktop. And then play Elite Dangerous on it.Leave a comment:
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If all the work is remote, build a super powerful desktop. And then play Elite Dangerous on it.Leave a comment:
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Currently, have a new mac mini for iOS dev work and have a Surface book2 for .Net development. I can tell you which one I prefer but I don't think it would help you if all your work is remote. I guess go for a laptop with a good screen, keyboard, battery and sounds like any OS will do you.Leave a comment:
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My company has a 27" iMac, which does a great job, but having a PC laptop is useful as well.Leave a comment:
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I moved from a Mac Pro to a refurbished Dell Latitude 9491.
It cost 2/3rds less and I'm very happy with it (although next time I'll spend a little more and get a better screen).Leave a comment:
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Get a laptop with some flavour of linux on it? Frankly, if you're just using it for remote VMs, rather than worry about the OS, focus on price, build quality, upgradeability/future proofing, size, weight, screen, reliability etc.Leave a comment:
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New computer - Mac or PC?
A few years ago I got a MacMini2012 because some dev work required a Mac. Gradually it ended up as my main machine, running Windows in Parallels, and my older Winbox got retired.
Now, the MacMini is getting more and more unreliable and I figure I'm due a replacement (I got it 2014 I think). I quite enjoy MacOS but the new MacMinis are really pricey - and less easily user-servable/upgradeable.
These days I typically do all my dev work on remote VMs so host OS is less important. Clearly I can get a WinBox for a few hundred quid, or even get a decent laptop and use that with external peripherals for comfortably under a grand.
I know it's subjective but just wondered what people reckon?
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