Re:Stop Building Closed Ecosystems
by kitsunesoba on Saturday April 15, 2023 @09:30PM
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> BTW: What kind of Mac laptop do you have that you get 16 hours of battery life? My 5mo M1 barely gets 4 hours when using only video-calling, Goland, Chrome and some terminals.
Hard to say without knowing what’s running in the terminals, but I’d say Chrome/Electron (and potentially, its use of non-HW-accelerated codecs in video chat) is the likely culprit here. Not the same machine, but my M1 Pro MBP 16” can pretty easily swing a full work day flipping between Xcode and Android Studio so long as I’m using Safari for browsing.
Re:Stop Building Closed Ecosystems
by scarface74 on Saturday April 15, 2023 @09:43PM
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I have a (work issued) MacBook Pro 16 inch M2 Pro Mac. I charged it to 100% and it lasted two full work days on battery at a client site open most of the time running VS Code and Teams (some people were still remote) and occasionally building AWS Lambdas. The build tools let you build Lambdas within an Amazon Linux Docker container containing the appropriate runtimes when you are building on Windows or Macs.
Depends on the apps you are using; what's the Mac equivalent of Emacs? How about Meld?
Yeah, this is a bit of a leading question; you can get great polished native non-xplatform apps for Macs but if you limit yourself to that category then the Mac is no longer as useful as a mid-range Windows/Linux laptop.
If you're going to insist on using only non-xplatform native apps when on Mac, you're in a niche (image/video/sound editing, maybe?)
BTW: What kind of Mac laptop do you have that you get 16 hours of battery life? My 5mo M1 barely gets 4 hours when using only video-calling, Goland, Chrome and some terminals.
In over a year of using a Mac as a daily driver, I've yet to use one non-xplatform native Mac application. so I am curious about what you non-xplatform native Mac app you are using.