Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?

Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by bodge5000 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @09:38AM (#31096752)

The one big thing thats always deterred me from Macs is the poor ecosystem for gaming. I dont play a lot of games anymore, but its a pretty reliable way of getting some much needed socialising in so I probably wouldn't want to lose it completely.

The problem is most workarounds I've seen are either to severly limit the games I can play or to get another computer/console for playing games, which just seems to be turning one problem into two. You can't even dualboot anymore, now that we have M1.

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by rootusrootus on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @12:53PM (#31099771)

I use a console for gaming and a Mac for a daily driver. I never really got into PC gaming, though, I've always felt like the console experience was better. At least for the games I enjoy playing.

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by bodge5000 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @01:23PM (#31100149)

I'd love to get a console, it'd make things so much easier (pretty much any bog standard laptop would work for me otherwise), but none of my friends are on console

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by dionian on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:37AM (#31098495)

i use a pc for gaming and mac for dev

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