[thewebguyd]

> There are too many WebGL effects on startup websites that were built to run on a M4 Max.

Tale as old as time. When the retina display macs first came out, we say web design suddenly no longer optimized for 1080p or less displays (and at the time, 1376x768 was the default resolution for windows laptops).

As much suffering as it'd be, I swear we'd end up with better software if we stopped giving devs top of the line machines and just issued whatever budget laptop is on sale at the local best buy on any given day.

[01HNNWZ0MV43FF]

At my work every dev had two machines, which was great. The test machine is cattle, you don't install GCC on it, you reflash it whenever you need, and you test on it routinely. And it's also the cheapest model a customer might have. Then your dev machine is a beast with your kitten packages installed on it.

[p1necone]

Develop on a super computer, test on $200 laptop - not really any suffering that way.

[xpe]

To keep a fast feedback loop, build on the fast machine, deploy, test on the slow one.

[teaearlgraycold]

I wouldn't go that far, but maybe split the difference at a modern i3 or the lowest spec Mac from last year.

It would be awesome if Apple or someone else could have an in-OS slider to drop the specs down to that of other chips. It'd probably be a lot of work to make it seamless, but being able to click a button and make an M4 Max look like an M4 would be awesome for testing.

[p1necone]

Tbh even the absolute lowest spec Mx macs are insanely powerful, probably best to test on a low end x86 laptop.

[universenz]

No no no.. go one better for the Mac. It should be whichever device/s which are next to be made legacy from Apple’s 7 year support window. That way you’re actually catering to the lowest common denominator.