MacBooks are NOT Professional

[@HVossi92]

I really enjoy the productivity of a Macbook (having had both Linux and Windows as my daily drivers before that), but the cost and fear of messing it up (and being charged outrageous amounts of money for repairs) is a real concern. But last year I couldn't find anything that was able to compete on a weight + battery life + performance basis (originally I wanted a Linux laptop).

[@MartinBaun]

yeah it seems like there aren't good alternatives except maybe older Thinkpads, but they're still not as powerful and if you do anything that requires good CPU you're out of luck.

[@thomasborg4442]

Never thought of that, but yeah they're all glued together.. impossible to repair or upgrade

[@MartinBaun]

Me neither, but now I know

[@kristinakristina6426]

good thoughts

[@MartinBaun]

thanks Kristi. How's your Maccie going along? Didn't spill tea in it so far hehe?

[@kristinakristina6426]

@@MartinBaun fortunately, not yet :) It works well, the only thing, recently, the speakers have broken so I needed to replace them. Anyway, I like my mac for its battery capacity as I can use it much longer when the electricity is off which can be the case nowadays in Ukraine

[@MartinBaun]

@@kristinakristina6426 yeah the battery power is unbeatable. I miss those days. Hope the electricity situation gets better as well

[@io9021]

Macbook hardware is great, but yes, the UI is terrible. I've been using LTS Ubuntu for many years for work, and it's solid.

[@MartinBaun]

Cool! I was thinking of doing the same, but I also looked at the newest Framework laptops and they're pretty sweet. And extremely easy to repair and Linux-friendly.

[@astrozen28]

dont spill the tea on the keyboard hahahah

[@MartinBaun]

You never know when it is going to happen to your keyboard bro. Might not even be you, but some random person in the coffee shop

[@PinnedBeats]

Prices are really shi** :D

[@MartinBaun]

Yeap, that's hwat you get when you rely 100% on one company

[@YouTubePavlo]

Haha sorry to hear it, but yea, thats macbooks worst qualities. btw I love to use blutooth keyboard and mouse (magic mouse) when I use mac at home, it's beautiful, as their touchbar =)

[@MartinBaun]

Hard to use keyboard + mouse in the coffee shops hehe. Though, I have seen one guy with 2 external screens and 2 laptops (yes 4 monitors) sitting in the cafe and working. Looked crazy

[@AnastasiiaSyrykh]

🤔🤔

[@paca3107]

Macbooks are for JS soy devs! Seriously maybe it's a joke, but I can see some true in this.

[@MartinBaun]

hehe. I guess they need a powerful M4 processor to compile their To Do app with 42 billion dependencies yeheh

[@paca3107]

@@MartinBaun ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@MartinBaun]

@@paca3107 is it a face emoji or a b*tt emoji? :P

[@paca3107]

@@MartinBaun its my face when I see the new shiny JS framework xD

[@MartinBaun]

@@paca3107 That'll be 4x a day Paca, yehehe.

[@kavuthaaaaaaaaa]

Oop🫢🫢

[@MartinBaun]

Tea, the great unifier

[@vitalyl1327]

There's nothing like i3wm on Mac. Unusable for me.

[@MartinBaun]

Oh man, you're hardcore Vitaly. I still have this on my todo to try out :)

[@vitalyl1327]

@@MartinBaun there are less extreme variants of tiling WMs if you want to keep most of your existing workflow habits and switch gradually.

[@MartinBaun]

@@vitalyl1327 I think I just need to bite the bullet when I get a little more time. It seems to be much more productive environment when you get used to it.

[@vitalyl1327]

@@MartinBaun true, you'll get the most benefits of a focused workflow when you go all in.

[@MartinBaun]

@@vitalyl1327 exactly. It's on the todo. Let's ohpe I get to it soon