Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a developer?

Re:Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a deve... by sudders on Saturday September 01, 2018 @08:39PM (#17894732)

I had to switch to a new laptop last year after my old MBP first generation retina died.

I couldn't justify the price, the specs and the keyboard of a new MBP anymore and after much deliberation I chose a $1200 HP Spectre x360.

I do mostly web development work (Ember.js, PHP and Node), and after running Win10 for a few weeks and hating the performance (especially for Node). I installed Ubuntu Budgie, and have been smoothly running it ever since.

The latest Linux kernel provides me with excellent battery performance and for a machine a third of the price I must say I made the right choice.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a deve... by ObsoleteNerd on Saturday September 01, 2018 @09:42PM (#17895014)

Any problems with the touch screen working in Ubuntu? Can you still use the pen to sketch in drawing programs etc?

I need a good Linux-friendly laptop with touch screen for sketching as well as code dev, so I'm very curious about this one.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a deve... by sudders on Saturday September 08, 2018 @04:43AM (#17940100)

Sorry. Only just saw your question.

The touchscreen works out of the box, but I don't use it that often, the few times I've used it I noticed that if I have an issue it's mostly related to the program I'm using and the lack of proper touchscreen support for that particular program.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a deve... by Boulth on Sunday September 02, 2018 @07:44AM (#17896640)

Not the OP but the touch screen worked out of the box for me on Arch, Dell 9350 and Gnome, just like on Windows. I don't have pen to test this though.

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