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by Joeri 3449 days ago
How is the dell xps faster than the macbook pro? In what way is the windows dev experience superior to the mac dev experience?

There's plenty of actual things to blame apple for without inventing new ones. The issue with the new mbp is not performance.
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vinylkey 3449 days ago
> In what way is the windows dev experience superior to the mac dev experience?

To be fair, it's dead simple to install Linux if you don't like Windows.

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collyw 3448 days ago
Its not difficult not install, but there are often a few tweaks that are needed to get everything working. Sometimes that can be quite tricky even for experienced people (I can't get both bluetooth and wireless working reliably one one machine I have, despite having tried 3 or 4 disrtos on it).
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whositis 3446 days ago
The Dell XPS laptop ships with Ubuntu, and all the hardware works flawlessly.
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slantyyz 3449 days ago
The only performance area that I can think of where Macbook Pros have trailed PC laptops in recent years is with discrete GPUs. CPU-wise, they've been pretty much the same.

Once you get into solid state disk I/O, PC laptops have some catching up to do.

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JadeNB 3449 days ago
> The issue with the new mbp is not performance.

Surely at least in part it is, when one of the major issues is the memory cap?

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Joeri 3449 days ago
The xps 13, the surface book and most other "developer-friendly" laptops don't fit more than 16 gb. I use a t460p which supports 64 gb, but I just have 16 gb in there because even for hadoop development I don't need more.

The memory cap issue is a non-issue. 99% of the people who complained wouldn't pay extra to get 32 gb.

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whositis 3446 days ago
I use Ubuntu. Can't comment on Windows. The Dell XPS+Ubuntu is staggeringly fast. Massive battery life, and no loud annoying fan etc.

For the same money as a mbp, you're getting more memory, faster CPU, better battery life, etc etc

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