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 cruano on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @01:14PM (#31100033)

Have you ever been to a FAANG office ?

Or anything in San Francisco for that matter, in my time in PayPal only one dude in the whole office had a windows machine

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by bluefirebrand on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @02:23PM (#31100970)

Have you ever been to an office outside of the FAANG / Silicon Valley Startup Bubble?

You won't see a Mac almost anywhere.

The numbers don't lie. Windows is more widely used than MacOS right now, period. And it's not even close.

Maybe that is starting to change, maybe we're in for another round of companies going "This is what they do at Google" and playing follow the leader. Maybe. But that's not the conversation we're having.

If you want to have that conversation, make those points. Not this "but it's what FAANG uses" appeal to authority nonsense.

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