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BattyMilk on March 18, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: New MacBook Air

I'm a FE developer (Mainly React/Node/React Native Development) and I'm still using a 2012 13" Macbook air (8Gb) as my daily driver at home. There's a noticable difference between it and my work (granted still relatively old) 2017 MBP 17". Running builds and an entire test suite maybe take twice as long but it's overall very usable and I see no reason yet to upgrade.

danieldk on March 18, 2020 [–]

but it's overall very usable and I see no reason yet to upgrade.

HiDPI. Once I had used a HiDPI screen for a while, I can't really tolerate LoDPI displays anymore.

copperx on March 18, 2020 | [–]

I agree. I'm an a 2012 15" MBPr, and and I can see myself using this laptop for a long time still.

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