He starts by comparing a desktop cpu to a laptop cpu, and a desktop cpu that can turbo up to some 250w. The Dell XPS he links to is a desktop too. I agree there is a lot of value to having a beast of a desktop. Before we all switched to laptops at work I never had an issue with running Visual Studio. What I don’t like is all the fan noise, heat and wasted energy, I would love a desktop that could go from sipping energy to beast mode.
As someone who has developed on Windows for decades I can’t help but laugh at these newcomer takes on Windows. The only redeeming feature is that you can use a slow running Linux inside of it to get all your dev tools working and have Windows as like a hardware compatibility layer. If you’re using a Framework laptop that supports Linux then surely you would just want to boot into Linux.
I dunno, if you've got a desktop, then you could just run linux, then you can do your normal dev stuff on it (I mean, I guess you may have issues with games, but proton+steam deck is making this less of an issue). This avoid the mess that is the start menu, edge taking over stuff, and generally Windows being Windows.
I switched to mac in 2008 after meeting DHH at railsconf 2008 in portland, I switched to windows last year to run AI models on nvidia rtx 4090, good to see DHH is now willing to switch back to windows workflow
As someone who has developed on Windows for decades I can’t help but laugh at these newcomer takes on Windows. The only redeeming feature is that you can use a slow running Linux inside of it to get all your dev tools working and have Windows as like a hardware compatibility layer. If you’re using a Framework laptop that supports Linux then surely you would just want to boot into Linux.