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 zumu on Saturday January 28, 2017 @04:50PM (#13509620)

I developed on one of those for a year. It was awesome for basic web development. I did a lot of react and ruby development on that thing.

However, my workload eventually evolved to require running several docker containers (micro-services), which really killed overall performance. React-native development was similarly painful. Ultimately, I was forced to upgrade to a thinkpad, but I will always have much love for that little chromebook.

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Re:Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell a... by nickjj on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @08:09AM (#13540405)

Did you have the same exact model (down to the year and everything), because the earlier version of the one I linked was a lot worse.

I've ran some pretty heavy work loads on the one I linked without issues (and this is comparing it to a high powered i5 desktop).

For example in the blog post, I mention running this:

- Google Chrome with 6 tabs open

- Youtube playing back a video (streaming music is important!)

- Docker daemon

- Dockerized Rails app with 28 gems

- Dockerized Sidekiq background work

- Dockerized Action Cable server

- Dockerized Postgres and Redis

- Sublime Text 3 with about 30 plugins

- 2 terminal windows, one with 2 tabs and the other with 3

- 1 PDF open with the native PDF viewer

- A 2nd workspace with another Google Chrome window and 3 more tabs

And it took it like a champ. No severe slow downs or thinking "meh, I should be on my workstation, this sucks!".

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