I agree, i also want to add that bad financial decisions are not professional (buying over-priced hardware) but i suppose you don't care if the salary is high soo

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

Apple products are not particularly expensive compared to a dev. Unless you enslaved your employees.

[–] LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How about getting the people who pay you to buy you over-priced hardware?

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'd personally prefer more hardware for the money, including when its being bought by others. But I also have to replicate client environments (though at a much smaller scale), so its kind of a cheat code for "buy me that" or "I'll be keeping this for 6-9 months and you can buy me a replacement when this one gets delivered to you".

I think I need another GPU heavy project.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have the same preference, but companies keep giving me macbooks to use for work no matter how many times I ask for a cheaper (or better specced at the same price) Linux laptop.

[–] thejml@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I have a MacBook at work simply because our Systems and Security teams don't want to support linux. The only other option is Windows 11 and i don't need that nightmare.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 2 points 1 week ago

I get that, I've got a Mac mini for similar reasons.

[–] LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Many companies will just buy in bulk and give the same thing to everyone. I'd rather use Linux but I understand they don't want to deal with different environments. Also yeah, Apple has made it very difficult to emulate MacOS so it's easier to buy that and emulate everything else.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 points 1 week ago

This is a good move

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Except every single MacBook you can buy right now (directly, from Apple, not second hand) directly beats pretty much every other device in its price range - unless you go super crazy with the specs and want to do 128GB RAM with an M5 Max and 8TB storage.

So it's hardly overpriced.

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I’ve been diehard anti-Apple for anything but their mobile devices (iPhone, ipad) for most of my life. Overpriced, underpowered. Now I own a MacBook Pro M4 and I just can’t get over how good it is. What a turnaround their change to Apple Silicone has made, it’s actually wild to me.

MacBooks, specifically, are still expensive but actually value for money now.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

I hear the base M5 is a pretty big leap forward in terms of performance, compared to even the M4. I ALSO hear Apple is still comparing them to the M1 because people with M1s are still hard to convince to upgrade so there's no point in marketing it to M4 owners.

[–] arty@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

My experience was different: after using Linux for a decade, I had to use a company MacBook for a year, and I was happy to return to my "normal" laptop afterward. Even though it couldn’t run Deus Ex like MacBook.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The build quality is excellent in my experience. I can justify spending more if it lasts and my previous MBP made it a decade!

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My mom's is going 13 years now. I bought it used and handed it down. No idea how many former owners.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

I'm not surprised! Mine was put through the ringer during its decade.

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 12 points 1 week ago

A m4 macbook air is $800 and absolutely stomps every laptop even remotely in that price bracket