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A comment on Ask HN: Should I buy Mac book Pro now or wait for ARM?.

Re:Ask HN: Should I buy Mac book Pro now or wait for ARM? by mebutnotme on Thursday June 25, 2020 @04:30AM (#23638247)
It depends on your use, you say you develop and so you likely have a number of tools that you rely on for your day to day productivity. While the new Arm processor may well be faster then the Intel it is going to cause incompatibilities for a while.

Going the Intel route now will give you a stable machine which still has a lot of performance (depending on what exactly you develop, web great, Linux kernel not so much ;o)

Getting the first Arm will lead to you spending time dealing with first adopter bugs and learning new tooling due to your existing stack having incompatibilities.

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Re:Ask HN: Should I buy Mac book Pro now or wait for ARM? by VBprogrammer on Thursday June 25, 2020 @04:48AM (#23638361)
> cause incompatibilities for a while

That strikes me as a huge understatement. I previously used Ubuntu as my main work and home OS for 10+ years before a 'corporate requirement' to move to MacOS for any new laptops.

Suffice to say, there is a big enough developer community running on Mac that almost everything can be made to work but that doesn't mean it will be smooth or easy to do. And that is with fundamentally the same architecture.

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