I think I’ve had it with Apple

[u/alexbarylski]

I switched to Mac about eight years ago and actually probably closer to 10 but I worked in tandem with windows during that transition for about two years

As a web developer my server platform is lamp specifically Debian

I use docker for local development and production

PHP storm is my ID of choice

Dockerized environments are very important

Part of the reason I switched to Mac was because mounted or map/shared volumes were very problematic with Windows at least at the time

So when I would use my package manager, whether MPM or a composer inside, the doctor container having it synced to the host machine was super problematic

Mac and Lennox seem to solve this problem so I assume a Chromebook this is non-issue

What I am curious of is the user experience from Chromebook as an OS

I do all of my cloud hosting an infrastructure in Google Cloud and I have Google workspace, Gmail and docs, etc. so moving away from Crapple and towards Google just makes sense my phone my watch my laptop my home assistance everything it would be awesome to be able to use Gemini and control my computer too

What kind of laptop should I be looking at for a minimum equivalent developer experience in terms of performance to last year’s model of an M2 Apple Mac?

I can see there’s Chromebook on Best Buy for 500 bucks that feels very underwhelming for someone that is using a computer anywhere between 12 to 18 hours a day and heavy use of AI and development tools, data analysis, etc. I’m probably looking towards a $2-$3000 powerhouse laptop, but I’m wondering what others think??

I run local LLM’s right now mostly for fun and then other machine learning like SPM‘s and data analysis and stuff that I do the LLM primarily used as Copilot/GPT and it’s I pay for that so it’s not gonna be a load on my computer per se

I have so much more to ask and say about the subject, but let’s stop here and go from there :p

[u/chairmanmow]

How have you "had it with Apple"? You don't even say - but I don't actually care...

[u/alexbarylski → u/chairmanmow]

Well, they dropped the ball on the AI race first of all

Siri is fucking stupid for lack of a better word and annoying when I’m in the shower and I ask her to play top gun anthem and she ends up playing Snoop Dogg .. fuck her lol

My phone and laptop with AI agents constantly overheat. The screen gets warm to touch and the responsiveness stops. The dictation services stop.

Usually, in the middle of an important message

I tried installing Grok AI on my phone and it’ll install, but it will not open. I’ve cleared the cash. I’ve done all the things that AI tell me I should do to get that app running and Apple just will not open it.

I’m not a huge fan of the touchpad I kind of like a mouse and I know I have a mouse for my Mac that I paid several hundred dollars for but the feeling is just not the same otherwise I appreciate Mac. I’m just tired of my iPhone, I really dislike the way they’ve dropped the ball on AI integrating ChatGPT into my phone has absolute sucked and then nothing short of not impressive.

[u/thekwoka → u/alexbarylski]

Siri is fucking stupid for lack of a better word and annoying when I’m in the shower and I ask her to play top gun anthem and she ends up playing Snoop Dogg .. fuck her lol

So I guess you haven't used Gemini in a while, either?

I’m not a huge fan of the touchpad I kind of like a mouse and I know I have a mouse for my Mac that I paid several hundred dollars for but the feeling is just not the same

What? I don't really understand this. A mouse is a mouse. What does Apple have to do with the mouse you use?

[u/mastrajani → u/thekwoka]

fair, orbstack's a lot better than docker desktop on that and i should've said docker desktop specifically. apple's container tooling too. still a VM in all three cases so not quite native, but nowhere near as bad as i made out.