Hi,
I'm strongly considering buying a Macbook pro.
I'm a LAMP (PHP) developer. Currently I use Mint on a Dell. Both
laptop and desktop. I do have a Dell laptop that runs M$ 10. Was a bad
move upgrading from M$7 to M$10... another story for another day.
The reason for my desired move is I want something that just works. I
do not have the time nor do I have the expertise to maintain Linux Mint
when there is an issue. For instance Dropbox does not launch correctly.
I have a work around, but do not want to have to figure this stuff out.
JoinMe.com does no work completely on my Linux desktop and I need it so
I use my Windows laptop. I can watch but I cannot become the presenter.
Moving to Mac is purely a business decision.
Up to this point I have bought cheap on sale Dell.
I also need Virtualbox because I need to develop using PHP 5.6 and PHP
7.
In doing my research I have narrowed my search to the Macbook Pro 13.3
or 15.4 inch models. I'm leaning towards the 15.4 since it has 16GB of
RAM. I suspect with the SSD drives these Macs have to sing.
My shock is the $2000 price tag. Yikes. I'm used to cheap dell
hardware that I pay $300 to $400 for on sale. I can see Best Buy is
selling the MacBook at a slightly discounted price.
If I can be just a little more productive the Mac will pay for itself in
no time.
The other thing I like about the Pro is it allows for driving two
external monitors. At the resolution the Pro provides that should be a
lot of real estate give the laptop monitor makes 3. The only downside I
am aware of is with the external monitors the refresh rate drops to
30Hz. I think someone on this list brought that up and they did not
like that low of a refresh rate.
I think I would find iMovie and Pages useful. And I could add an iPhone
to the mix and utilize those benefits.
If I buy the Mackbook pro 15.4 inch with 16GB of RAM what would be a
reasonable life expectancy in a production environment? What would I be
able to reasonably expect working it 12+ hours a day, day in day?
Any and every thought is much appreciated.
--
Keith Smith
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