Ask HN: Are MacBook Pros still a good purchase for developers?

Re:Ask HN: Are MacBook Pros still a good purchase for develo... by ktaube on Friday May 31, 2019 @06:56AM (#20059778)

Bought the ThinkPad x1 carbon as a replacement for my 2015 MBP a few days back and the experience has been really disappointing.

It took me a couple of hours just to install all the latest updates/drivers/bios updates. The Lenovo provided "updater" software is just horrible. The windows UX actually feels nice for me, just need to get used to it. Setting up development environment has been a struggle though. Linux subsystem feels super slow and the lack of good terminal makes it even worse. Upcoming WSL 2 update and the new terminal should improve this though but I wouldn't hold my breath.

In conclusion - I'm not recommending switching to windows. There's basically nothing that feels better than on Macs, except that the laptop itself was a lot cheaper.

EDIT: + I'm really impressed that I can still sell the old macbook for like 600€. The ThinkPad will probably depreciate in value a lot more.

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Re:Ask HN: Are MacBook Pros still a good purchase for develo... by gtsteve on Friday May 31, 2019 @07:38AM (#20059947)

If you'd like a pretty reasonable terminal right now you can look at ConEmu or cmder (which is a further customised version of ConEmu). You get tabs and reasonable key shortcuts etc.

I'm also looking forward to the new terminal though, I hope it'll be a lot nicer.

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Re:Ask HN: Are MacBook Pros still a good purchase for develo... by bogle on Friday May 31, 2019 @10:13AM (#20061034)

Installing cmder, which runs over ConEmu, gives you a really nice terminal with lots of configurability.

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