Dear Apple, We Need an Affordable and Upgradable Mac

Re:Dear Apple, We Need an Affordable and Upgradable Mac by whynotminot on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @03:59PM (#17962800)

Honestly the best situation for someone like this is to buy a nice $800 Windows machine and do your development in a Linux VM. For years now developers not in the Mac ecosystem have used this approach.

I prefer developing on Mac myself, but have used the other approach too with good success. It works, just maybe not as seamlessly.

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Re:Dear Apple, We Need an Affordable and Upgradable Mac by dmcginty on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @04:03PM (#17962832)

In the post they specifically say they can't use Linux due to legal reasons. I imagine this would apply to a VM, also.

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Re:Dear Apple, We Need an Affordable and Upgradable Mac by whynotminot on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @04:04PM (#17962839)

They were talking about editing documents that require licensed / non-open source software, no? Not the actual development?

Edit your docs in windows, write your code on the Linux VM.

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Re:Dear Apple, We Need an Affordable and Upgradable Mac by justwalt on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @04:13PM (#17962913)

Why not run Linux with Windows in the VM? Is there a reason?

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Re:Dear Apple, We Need an Affordable and Upgradable Mac by whynotminot on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @04:25PM (#17963032)

Potato potato.

For instance for my current dev station I have a Mac and whenever I need Windows for something I use a Windows VM. It works pretty well for me.

The bottom line is that the guy needs cheap hardware that allows for a modern dev environment and also access to windows. Some flavor of linux + windows will check the boxes.

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Re:Dear Apple, We Need an Affordable and Upgradable Mac by gaius on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @04:58PM (#17963307)

Edit your docs in Windows, write your code with Visual Studio targeting WSL. It’s the future.

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Re:Dear Apple, We Need an Affordable and Upgradable Mac by whynotminot on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @07:24PM (#17964313)

... nothing about writing code in windows is the future.

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Re:Dear Apple, We Need an Affordable and Upgradable Mac by pjmlp on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @12:52AM (#17965641)

Being a developer doesn't mean programming UNIX software.

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