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Re:Toshiba to Close the Book on Its Laptop Unit by mkirklions on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @12:33PM (#17239355)
If I need to compile a React Native App, this would do the trick right?

Looking to give Apple the least amount of money as possible.

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Re:Toshiba to Close the Book on Its Laptop Unit by fhood on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @12:43PM (#17239463)
Sure, find a maxed out 15" model. It'll do pretty much whatever you need it too. Mine (purchased new) still blows a lot of stuff out of the water as far as baseline day to day performance.

Mpbs were, and still are, very popular dev machines, so most dev tasks are pretty easy to achieve. Just be careful not to install multiple package managers or you may never find some of your libraries again.

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Re:Toshiba to Close the Book on Its Laptop Unit by FussyZeus on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @03:19PM (#17241065)
My 2014 Macbook Pro still dances circles around my boss's brand new top-spec Dell.
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Re:Toshiba to Close the Book on Its Laptop Unit by emidln on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @12:32AM (#17244360)
Exact opposite at my work. Most devs were stuck trying to use VMs with 16GB Macbook Pros and I'm sitting with a 64GB Clevo happily running Linux. Its hard to overstate how much better a modern NVMe m.2 stick and spare ram for a memory disk in key locations is for your dev experience.
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