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Mornin'
Morning.
Morning
morning
månmån
finally have to upgrade my 2013 MBP as the JVM is not being kind to it
even refurb macs are so spenny
gonna get 32GB RAM cos if I never hear my laptop complaining about docker or the jvm again it will be too soon
(though it occurs to me that idiom actually works both ways)
@alex.lynham - All I have to say is that I feel your pain, and based on my disappointments (which are admittedly partly driven by trying to use my MacBook Pro for photo and video editing, a LOT), I would say go 16". The 13" machines just are not up to being a mainline computer by anyone’s standards. I am going to replace my 13" as soon as I possibly can, I really regret buying it in terms of the disappointment in it, versus the money saved.
is that a touch bar?
I reckon it must be related to how intensive the screen is
cos my 2013 can still just about run logic and final cut x okay, it’s just as a dev machine it’s beginning to creak with multiple jvms
(but the screen resolution etc, while original gen retina isn’t anthing to write home about)
(and it can’t run a 4k monitor)
wow and yours can’t run final cut v well? that’s wild
I guess I am running a six years old version, so that might have something to do with it… presumably the specs were lower for logic and final cut back then…. :thinking_face:
In fairness, when I am doing “work” on it as I am at the moment (long story) it’s “not bad”, but once I get into photo / audio / video it’s loud, hot and not very responsive
yeah that’s what happens when I dev clojure on this one 😂
yeah I would expect their footprint to be similar
okay well that’s it settled, 15 refurb with 32gb it is
For one thing the discrete graphics in the larger ones helps a LOT when doing any photo / video work.
ah… maybe that explains it… my 2013 does have discrete graphics. I think?
I thought the last of those ones would be gone by now, so was expecting to have to go 16" when I trade in / up
looks like there are some knocking around. a couple on the apple store (but dear) a couple on hoxton macs. none on the reseller near me tho
well it’s a new tax year today so at least expensing a mac today makes sense lol
my wallet will not be thanking me
@alex.lynham - Tell me about it! I need about £3.6k to get the 16" MBP I want…
I think I specc’d out a new one at 3.6 or so, so went for a refurb instead haha
Still, I am reasonably certain that when I buy it I can hope to get 5-6 years out of it for my media-related usage.
yeah I mean my last one was just over a k to me, and I worked out that I had well over a one hundred times return in six years, so in that regard…
when you are using it all day every day for work it becomes alot easier to justify
indeed
@conor.p.farrell you went linux rather than mac last time didn’t you?
I think if I didn’t want to use ableton I would def go lenovo thinkpad
rather than mac
hassle of sorting out drivers and whatnot?
General messing about etc., overall it wasn't too bad except for having to use the GPU full-time as without it, it struggles to drive two monitors
hmmm that hassle over 6 years… probably not worth it, idk
my work macbook went down last autumn and I had a pretty productive few weeks with the lenovo, which only had 8GB of ram - just goes to show how much heavier osx is. the big issue was again the odd driver issue, support for monitors etc
I have the work MBP home with me, but I find myself just using my supposedly underpowered ThinkPad with Ubuntu as my main machine. It doesn't have the umph to do virtual background in Zoom, but that's pretty much the only thing I found that it can't do. It has i5 processors and 16GB of RAM. Yes, the fan goes on once in a while, but I have noise-cancelling headphones on...
16gb is enough to be fair
For most things anyway