[capl]

I find the hate towards MacBooks interesting, and more so in the comments than the actual video. After having used a lot of computers, both laptops and desktops, I genuinely believe there are no better laptops than MacBooks that bring build quality and software quality, and last but not least the integration of those two to the table -- albeit for a hefty price tag.

A Windows laptop that you convert to a Linux laptop is simply a inferior machine in my eyes and my metrics: worse trackpad, way worse battery life, worse build quality in general (although Razor's laptops are quite good), worse hardware integration (biometric auth). It's a tinkerer's dream, but not the optimal productivity machine.

Linux belongs on the server, maybe desktops, but certainly not on a laptop IMHO.

I say this not to be a Apple fanboy, but rather to acknowledge that Apple's products are not the cancer that some people make it out to be.

[lacrimacida]

Apple laptops aren’t bad, most likely they’re the best laptops in terms of quality. Whoever hates them hates the price and the closed system apple has. But the whole point of this video is that desktops are much better value. And I sort of agree, though I own no desktop, out of pure convenience.

[capl]

Yes, I've just seen lots of people in the comments not seeing the value in the machines Apple create, which slightly annoys me. Because they are very fine computers.

And as most people with laptops, we own them due to convenience ;) -- that's why I believe they are usually better consumer grade computers than desktops.

[chillingeffect]

My Dell XPS was an excellent Ubuntu machine. 16 cores, 3x USB-C ports, 64 GB RAM. Slept better than my win11/lenovo. Used it for two years writing firmware in C++ and python and matlab. Worked great with dual external 4k monitors.

[Zetobal]

macOS is pretty bad for development atm. The tooling is a mess (docker arch -_-) and don't get me started on xcode and the prehistoric versions of every cli tool.

[capl]

I'm on a 2019 Intel MBP, so I have not experienced developing on ARM yet. I though docker had full support for ARM, and I assumed it did emulation of amd64, no?