I’m switching companies, and will be assigned a beefy Windows 10 laptop. WSL2 has been a good developer experience, so I’m not disappointed about going non-Mac. That said I need a new personal machine, and while I have a few MacBook Pros, I’m disappointed with their lack of expandability (RAM), and more so that they won’t take the latest macOS versions (without workarounds that have caveats). Was not a problem until I found apps I use won’t upgrade because the OS won’t upgrade. The HP Dev One may not be the best in class option for a laptop that ships with Linux, but for the price it checks most of my boxes. Upgradable, works with multiple distros (Pop OS is nice enough), reasonable cost. I have seen comments about the screen resolution. But not knowing too much about the panel options today, don’t know if that would be a problem for me. My comparison would be a 2015 MacBook Pro Retina, the last 15″ or less laptop I worked on. I mostly work in a terminal, Vim: SQL, Python, Go. Desktop environment is for a browser, email, chat UI, and little else. Anyone with this specific laptop wish they did not buy it, and if so, why?
Story Published at: October 4, 2022 at 06:22PM
Story Published at: October 4, 2022 at 06:22PM