MacBook Pro M3 - Hackdot

Re:MacBook Pro M3 by dijit on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:06AM (#38082004)

I'm using an M2 Air professionally for around a year now, it's excellent and it makes me seriously question why developers need macbook pro's.

The only limitation I notice is that I can only have a single external display.

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Re:MacBook Pro M3 by packetlost on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @10:26AM (#38085371)

Yeah, the single external display is the biggest limiting factor for me. The performance is generally there (except for more heavy compilations). I'm thinking of picking up a M3 Pro Mac Mini when those eventually release to combat the display limitations.

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Re:MacBook Pro M3 by breakfastduck on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @03:47PM (#38090450)

RAM and displays, for sure.

But also, Airs used to be absolutely AWFUL devices in terms of performance when they were still intel. I think the stigma has stuck around.

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Re:MacBook Pro M3 by xcv123 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @03:53PM (#38090522)

> makes me seriously question why developers need macbook pro's

For work I am developing a massive JVM monolith server application and even the M1 Pro 16" takes minutes for it just to start up. Compilation is also slow with millions of lines of code. I have SQL Server running on an x86 Linux VM with Rosetta in Docker. Need all the CPU I can get. The Macbook Air simply has less CPU performance and is thermally throttled. It would waste too much of my time.

For my personal hobby C++ coding, the Macbook Air 8GB would be enough.

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