There’s a voice in my head suggesting a $4,000 MacBook upgrade to… be able to build machine learning docker images without hating my life. Feels like we took a wrong turn somewhere along the way
One part of me says “this is the primary tool of my trade, amortised $1,000/year is damn cheap”. The less rational part says “if I were a carpenter, many of my tools would outlive me”
(side-effective of growing up poor, I guess. Took me a full day to introspect why I feel this way about a work-related purchase. Can‘t ever turn the “save a penny” voice off, even in cases where it doesn’t make sense)
@swiftcoder I’m on the side of the carpenter, but also: every time I’ve bought an expensive laptop for power it’s been a letdown. Throttling, heat, and noise are all a given. If not now, then a few years later when software degrades a bit further. Recently bought a desktop instead, and it’s now obvious it’s what I needed all this time. (Your mileage may wary, of course!)
@jonikorpi I'm with you on the downside of laptops. Unfortunately, I'm fairly locked into the Mac ecosystem for web+ML, and desktop macs are perenially worse than their laptop counterparts...
@swiftcoder Well what I got is a refurb base model Mac Studio. It’s so far the best computer I’ve ever had. It replaced an Intel 16” MBP, which was the worst. :D
Only downside so far: no Apple Pay or Touch ID unless I get Apple’s keyboard.
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