alt Hacker News> absolutely solid product that is actually sufficient for the large majority of full stack devs
Worth pointing out that the same thing is true for a $350 windows box. The news here isn't "The M5 Air is a disappointment", it's "Laptops are commoditized and boring".
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As a Windows-based developer from 1996 to 2015 and then Linux from 2015 to 2020, I can say that my dev experience is immeasurably better using a Mac.
The ranking is MacOS >> Linux >> Windows. The Apple ecosystem is expensive but worth it if you can afford it (iPhone + Watch + iPad + AirPods + Mac.)
$350 windows box probably isn't silent like the MBA
> Worth pointing out that the same thing is true for a $350 windows box
Depends. Are you doing dev on Microsoft's stack, or are you doing dev on all of the other stacks?
As a developer my quality of work life improved radically when they let me have a Mac instead of the Windows laptop I was using.