Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell and others gained ground

Re:Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell a... by swozey on Saturday January 28, 2017 @12:54AM (#13505152)

The host OS doesn't matter, the ram does greatly matter. The delay in development between having to spin up and down servers for testing on aws/gcp is MASSIVE vs. launching tests via minikube.

Evidently I missed that this was about the Macbook and not pro, I couldn't care less about the Macbook.

I'm on a fully loaded i7 2015 MBPr and need a new one stat, new as in more ram (limited to 16gb).

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Re:Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell a... by guitarbill on Saturday January 28, 2017 @02:07AM (#13505311)

No I mean you can use the capex savings from "just" an average laptop to buy/build really beefy servers. In a professional setting this scales quite well. At home, you could also use that server as a NAS or gaming rig. That way, you can also upgrade the server separately from the laptop.

It's maybe not for everybody (e.g. photo/video editing), but pretty underrated IMO. Further advantages: RAID, easy to replace the laptop if you lose it or it gets damaged, server are easier to set up with fast, reliable connections (intra or internet) for pulling VM images. Disadvantages: More maintenance/admin?

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