Joining as sde in network infra team. lead said I can pick whatever, but any recommendations? I'm between these three: chrome os 2021 dell, lenovo with glinux, or MacBook 2021? I know most things are gonna be done on cloud but any issues with any of these choices? what's the preference/go to for most teams? I'm assuming it's mac pro but heard the 2021 model can have some issues
Mac Pro for sure
Nothing beats the keyboard feel of a MacBook
And superior trackpad navigation experience too 🍎
MacBook every time. G and FB experience is orders of magnitude better with the MacBook everyone else used. Don’t try to buck the trend. I have, several times, and it’s always been a giant waste of time.
Most M1+/ ARM based software issues have been solved on macs by now for software compilation. The most annoying thing about local mac development is having to install the GNU versions of software and put in path ahead of BSD based versions of tools. That said, most development should take place in cloud based environments so I’d go with a MBP since it’s the best hardware and laptop imo.
Mac every single time. Unless and until your development depends upon windows.
MBP is a solid choice, especially if you want to in future do any sort of iOS work or local development. I have teammates with Chromebooks, they are fine too, but obviously everything is purely cloud. gLinux is designed for wired, always-on workstations on ethernet inside the mothership's firewall, but on laptops at home, last time I looked, it was kinda beta quality: random corp-specific things break because they were written without any concern for power management or possible long term lack of corp connectivity, if you are a Linux hacker you can probably work around the breakage and fix things, but for a regular user it's not recommended.
It honestly doesn't matter as anything requiring power will be done in cloud. If you like Macs, go mbp. If not, go Chromebook.
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