Mac guy forced to buy Windows laptop for software dev
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- I love my MacBook Pro, but I HAVE to get a Windows/Linux laptop for software development. Here are the things I look for in a laptop for programming.
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The new MacBooks (14/16") are mini-LED not OLED.
Also i9 in a thin XPS is gonna thermal throttle and for prolonged (>2 minute) load will often run slower than an i7 or even an i5 in some cases going by their older models. Even more so with an RTX dGPU, you will just melt the poor cooling system!
You should really look at the Lenovo P series workstations for this kind of workload, they are thicker and come with a much better thermal design. If you want to stick with Dell then their Precision line (not the XPS model Precision) is what you should look at although for the past few years Dell's mobile workstations consistently perform around 10-15% slower than the same spec Lenovo due to thermal limitations.
he knows that he never said the other way around when he mentioned LCD he was talking about his old laptop
@@ko-Daegu At 5:06 he says "the new MacBooks have OLED" which is wrong. Simple mistake, not making a big deal just correcting is all.
i also doubt these xps good for work ppl buy fashion statement products for professional work, newer understood why.
The 12th gen i9 thrashes the m1 and m2 it does not throttle
@@420247paul but m1 is not universal platform and cant perform many task, for example for work im doing, its just not supported, i cant even start project.
On the Dell at least, the difference in performance between the i7 and the i9 is negligible. It's a thermal constraint. 10% extra, tops.
beside the RAM thing, I disagree with pretty much everything else. As a developer, when I look to buy a new laptop, here are my priorities:
- RAM at least 16GB
- Display: If you go with 13 inch, don't choose 16:9 ratio, always go with 16:10 or 3:2, the brightness should be at least 350 nits. Don't worry about the resolution, pretty much everything that starts with 16gb of RAM will have a FHD or above display.
- Keyboard: DON'T BUY the new XPS Plus, it does not have a physical ESC key. If you're a developer, you will need it more than you know. Other than that, can go with some reputable keyboard brands like Mac or Lenovo.
- Battery life: Choose something that can go up to 10 hours of video playback.
- SSD: 256GB is fine but if you can, go with 512GB or above, the type of SSD does not matter unless you want to edit videos on it.
- Finally, CPU: Please don't choose i7 or i9, 99.99999% app you write will not require that much performance and an i7 or i9 will hurt your battery life and thermal. If you think your app needs an i7 to run, there is something wrong with your code
yas i have 9th i5 and its just fine for game and vr development.
You don't need to dual boot for Windows 11. Linux is built in with WSL. It's not a virtual machine either. You can allocate cores to it and literally run two OSs inside Windows at the same time. I do it all of the time. It even supports GUIs with X11 forwarding.
XPS is Dell's version of Intel Macbook Pros:
- Form over function
- Weak graphics
- Pretty aluminum and shiny glass that sucker people into buying
- Very expensive for the specs
- High-end CPU kneecapped by thermal throttling
If the physical appearance of your computer is so important to you that you don't care about making all those sacrifices and blowing an extra thousand dollars, then I'd go with XPS 17, as it's not as thermally throttled as the 15.
your REALLY want a 16:10 laptop, 1980x1200 - it's the best option for developers
I love how Alex was just finding any freaking excuse for buying another laptop while his house is full of these :D The guy just loves picking and buying these stuff. great content as usual bro :)
What MS has always done well (with a few exceptions) is make development tools and APIs, and made those tools available to developers relatively cheaply.
Correction. The new MacBooks Pro are not OLED. They are Mini LED. Mini LED is an improvement on traditional LCDs unlike OLED which is a very different way of doing displays. OLEDs have problems with burn-in and colours changing a lot over time, fading. However, OLED has much better control of the black levels, but mini LED can generally go a lot brighter. Micro LED should fix OLED and improve on OLED like Mini LED improved on LCDs
Micro LED is for replacing Mini LED on LCD screens as a backlight to shine through the LCD. OLED doesn't have backlights, the OLED pixels themselves light up. Micro runs like Mini, it just is smaller lights in much greater numbers, so turning off lights in areas works better for blacks without the light bleed you can sometimes see on Mini.
My m1 is starting to be crippled when it comes to k8s development and non arm builds :/, so I’ll be purchasing a pc shortly as well for windows/linux
My windows box is a Lenovo X1 Extreme; minimal throttling and is reparable. Definitely set in my ways, I'd also use a P series. Also recommended a thunderbolt workstation dock. One thing you'll notice immediately is that unplugged windows boxes throttle....unlike the M1 machines that continue to run full speed while unplugged. I keep my machines docked so not an issue for me.
I used a first gen x1 Carbon for 8 years (handed down to me when it was 2 years old)
its an amazing computer and started my programming career. It lasted 10 years, around 30000 hours of usage
Recently I switched to windows and it’s cool. Using matebook E (so lightweight and sufficient for coding)
Just a couple questions I had regarding the introduction of this video:
1) Why would you deviate from your preferred system of choice instead of setting up a (remote) Windows virtual machine?
2) What's wrong with gaming laptops? You said you wanted it more business oriented but gaming laptops oftentimes have much better specs for a better price. The only downside I see is battery life.
yas and he bought fashion laptop for work...and paid 2k+
Although gaming laptops are cheaper and have better specs some of them scream "GAMER" way too hard
Intel based laptops aren't a good idea. I ditched all of my Intel systems: desktop, MacBook Pro, office workhorse... Now, i have a Ryzen desktop, a Ryzen office workhorse, and a Ryzen notebook (same model as my last Intel based Windows notebook owned). Intel's generations doesn't matter. Those are grill and hairdryer stations. I'm happy with my all-AMD setups. My office workhorse (it's a pony) is a tiny 4700U and runs faster than my last gen 10 i7 grill-plate. Consider AMD Ryzen 5xxx or higher notebooks too. Intels are fast, until turbo can run: ~30s. But my working time is _a bit_ longer.
The other option I didn’t hear you mention is to build a pc at home and connect to it from your MacBook. So you only need to carry your MacBook but can connect back home for your windows PC. Maybe you can virtualise Linux? You get great battery life, keyboard, trackpad and display and the performance + capabilities of a desktop PC.
valid!
How would you do that? Just curious to know.
@@OscarFromIndia the best would be running a Hypervisor on bare metal. The easiest would be something like VMWARE. but that’s just based on what I’ve seen on UA-cam, do some research on specifics.
@@kushalraj thanks kushal. Its a good starting point for me. I'll do some research
As a mechanical engineer I use a lot of 3D programs that run windows only. I would recommend it to you to look at HP Zbook models. Build quality is excellent and you can spec it as you wish. They don't have QC issues like Dell.
Some good choices for business:
- Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 3
- Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 10
- Dell XPS 15/17
Sir I think you have made a mistake going with Dell. However, individual results might vary. Good luck!!!
why do you think so?
@@AZisk I work for the school system and have been using Dell machines for 15 years now. Honestly, I have never had experience with their top tier, flagship devices. I have had a lot of experience with their mid range and lower cost ones. Perhaps that has influenced my opinion. I give the experience a C grade. And I give their quality a B-. It is amazing how many of their machines I've had to replace 1 day after the warranty expires. Also, the laptop quality, the construction of the frame and casing, the underpowered battery setup, the lack of screen quality (mid range) the cheap keyboards, and more simply make me encourage people to stick to Lenovo.
i heard microsoft announe something call Windows 365 you can pay and use windows machine anywhere(like rent a machine and remote desktop)
You can use WSL2 for Linux on windows unless you really need the Linux desktop, however x windows is pretty easy to use.
The most powerful would be Intel HX or bricks with desktop CPUs. There are also Ryzen 8/16 CPUs really solid :)
I am in the same position too... I was looking at the XPS machines and I looked at my savings and thought "I am either too poor or these machines are overpriced"
"Mac version of VS is getting there. Maybe a few more years (10 years)" 🤣
As a developer for back-end C/C++/python (Windows, Linux, VMs) and also now digging into front end (JS), I would not go for 15'' lower than 1440p, I don't know what IDE you guys are using, but I'm always splitting it in 2 (to be able to work on multiple files at the same time, with outline and file tree on the left + right) on a 1080p this is not a good experience. On windows / Linux the scaling is really bad for monitors @ 4k, this is why I love apple ... but now with M1 (they are great) I can't use my x86 VMs. On another note i9 in a 15inch + RTX (even though I'm all in for more cores) ... that's going to be your new heat-pump for the room.
You Want Ram and performant x86 cpu? Buy a Lenovo Thinkpad L14 (Gen 2) with AMD Ryzen 7 !!!! Then for upgrades buy some 64Gb of DDR4 3200Mhz and 2TB Nvme SSD from ali express, this should be today the best bang for the buck for any developer who needs CPU and Ram only (no vga). Perfect keyboard, very lightweight, very cool temperature on lap.
Love the video Alex! Funnily enough, I'm in the same boat. Switched jobs recently and I need to be able to run .NET FWK apps and services, so I ordered the Dell XPS 13 PLUS with 32 GB RAM to serve me for the coming years. The MBA is fine, but it struggles to emulate or virtualize Windows properly. Sadly, it takes a month to ship :(
I agree with the recommended 16GB for RAM, but, unfortunately, the price for us in 3th world countries is just prohibitive. I do my job just fine with 8GB on M1, probably you can also do yours.
For the price of an M1 with 8GB, you can find a Windows computer with 16GB. MacBook Airs aren't exactly cheap.
@Platon Emil xD Geez... Did your pussy get hurt from my comment? What a total dipshit! Wow... Hahahaha!
For your information, I have an M1 Max MBP with 64GB of RAM. It's severely overpriced. I also have a Windows desktop with an AMD Threadripper, 128GB of RAM, and an RTX 3090. It's also severely overpriced. My point was that if he ever needed 16GB of RAM, due to the "prohibitive" nature of him being in a "3[rd] world country", then the Windows laptop would be much cheaper.
Unless he's specifically developing software for iOS, there's no reason that he has to be on a Mac, let alone an M1. It just seems that people want an Apple just for the status symbol or because they find them cool. Not really a good reason to overpay.
While the M1 is a great chip, it's on par with the much cheaper Intel i7-1260P in benchmarks. So, the same performance could be had for much cheaper.
So, go crawl back into your hole, dipshit.
Edit: ew... You subscribe to PewDiePie? What a total plebian. 😂🤣 Be gone, NPC
I would go with AMD over Intel and a Thinkpad instead.
I have a 2013 HP Envy with an i7, 16GB RAM and 500 GB SSD. It's 1080 resolution and 17". Back then I don't think 17" laptops were a big problem. Now, I'm 65 and retired so I like the large screen. I had to buy HP over Dell back then because Dell did not have the latest processors, HP did. Also, I was afraid I might have an issue if I bought the HP laptop because one of my programming classmates had a nightmare from hell with his HP machine. I bought HP anyway and fortunately I had no issues. The only thing I did eventually was to upgrade my HDD to SSD. That made a huge difference in speed and how fast the laptop boots up!
Alex, I have owned many Windows and Mac PCs… For windows PCs, I have settled on Dell XPS and Lenovo. My two recent Windows PC purchases are a Intel 10th gen i7 XPS 17” 4K and an AMD R7 5xxx Lenovo IIdeaPad Slim 7 Carbon 14” 1600line OLED. Both have great keyboards and screens. The XPS has user upgradable RAM (2 slots) and 2 M.2 slots. I put in 64GB RAM and 2 x 2tb drives. Both are great for development. The Lenovo is less than half the size, weight, and price of the XPS 17”, but it still has a great screen and great performance.
That Alienware X14 is maah baby! I love it....but then for a professional like you, XPS makes more sense...also do mention what challenges you are facing with the asus...my friend was eyeing the asus, your inputs will be valueable...
Rider > Visual Studio, especially on macOS. Force yourself to use it exclusively for a week - you won't be disappointed
I already tried Rider, and I do like it. But I'm not used to it quite yet. Also, what about SQL Server?
@@AZisk Rider cannot take the place of VS in all situations. I'm a .NET developer as well and I love Rider and Resharper. The tooling my workplace uses, along with some legacy .NET Framework projects means I pretty much have to use Windows and VS. Fortunately, VS2022 is way faster and couple it with Resharper and it's a pretty nice experience. I have a maxxed out XPS 15 with the OLED screen. I've enjoyed using it for the last year. I really wish I could get by on Apple silicon tho.
@@AZisk Yeah - that's kind of a problem. You probably already know that the mssql linux docker image doesn't work at all on M1. I've resorted to running it in Parallels, but 64-bit SQL Server won't run on arm64 either. 32-bit SQL Server 2014 DOES work and seems to be fine outside of newer features.
If you NEED everything on one laptop this works but you're better off with a separate box handling SQL.
Love your vids man - you converted me to a mac developer 6 months ago and I'm never going back.
I had M1 but the biggest problem was, no SSMS. Sick and tired also the other issues of incompatibilities.
MS seems to be working extremely hard at making .NET work properly cross platform. They are well aware that a huge percentage of developers work via Macs, and thus avoid .NET work, rather than having to give up the fantastic Mac hardware and macOS. They, like every other computing company in the world, since the release of the M1, have a rocket up their arse to switch to ARM. They are furiously working away at not only improving Windows for ARM, but in actually building their own ARM chips to compete with M1. Thus, I have faith that serious .NET development on M1 Macs isn't far away at all. My new MBP is on order, and I look forward to being able to go down this path soon if I choose. In the meantime, I can also code in Java, so all good.
.Net still works pretty well on Mac imo, IF you can get over the fact Visual Studio for Mac is not quite the same experience as on Windows. That said, .NET 6 and .NET Core work pretty well for me on Mac, especially if you're using technologies such as Docker. Built on Mac and deployed to AWS using docker!
Razer Blade 14 - most Mac like PC laptop I've ever used. Sleek for business but can also be used for gaming too, very nice. Also matte black (which I wish Apple did).
I used to have an XPS 13, which was good, but the blade is much better and WAY more powerful (RTX 3080 on board with 8 core AMD CPU) whilst still being sleek and quite thin and light. 1440p is also a good tradeoff.
I'm also a Microsoft dev and used to do it on a Mac.
Seeing the title I thought you were talking about me :) I was using an iMac 27" with parallels for my .Net development and recently bought an M1 Mac. It took only a few weeks to come to a conclusiion that M1 Mac was not going to work for me. I gave it away and built a decent Ryzen 9 3900XT desktop for myself. Also backed up that desktop with a cheap Ryzen 5 Laptop, Lenovo Thinkpad E495 which I replaced RAM from 4 Gb to 32, and 128 Gb NVME with a 1 TB WD SN750 NVME SSD. So far both dekstop and notebook rocks, after all they are Ryzen based. Well I still have iMac which is Intel based and I use it for Mac, iOS development as well but for windows I strongly suggest Ryzen.
I heard you want the fastest i9, and RTX 3080, 8 hours of battery, 13 inch... and I died laughing....🤣
😂 yes, i want it all !!!
Hi, thanks for your videos, they have useful info and are inspiring, keep on pal, ... now I am a civil and electrical enginneer, I definetely want windows for my work, but I love Macs since 2010. Bootcamp was a blessing, we had the two world together, .. but the shit hit th fun and you kown, rest is history, life goes on,... is it? I mean I have a feeling that Apple will continue intel solutions, just one model, for us, yopu known,.. I hope this could be not most of a hope, ... nice videos Alex, go on..
4K is better scalable than 1080p. In the beginning were problems of that but now I would not choose a non 4K Screen.
Why don’t you choose an AMD CPU based laptop or even considered it? Intel is a company with a very low moral standard and they use much more energy to get the performance of the competition.
the most important thing is full sized up and down keys ))
Get a thinkpad, there are many reliability issues with dell
Wish you would have gone for my pick (MSI Creator Z16P first) it has an i9 with 3080Ti configuration available. 2560x1600 display, which is the sweet spot both in terms of ratio as well as pixel density. 4k is overkill but 1080p just isn't as sharp on a 16 inch display.
But either way, it will be good content to watch the comparison. I still think you'll end up picking the Z16P in the end :)
I am waiting the unboxing
haha OLED macBooks in your brain exclusively
You say GPU is "General" Processing Unit 😂 06:52
and APU is an Admiral Processing Unit
Damn I wouldn’t force my worst enemies to get a windows laptop what a punishment
lol
Obviously you would not recommend a PC, after Apple's brainwashing.
@@uribak9144 We got a triggered poor over here 😂
@@blackice214 poor iSheep
My experience shows that 1080p/FHD may not be a right option, I'd say check for something with higher AR - 8:5 or 3:2. This seriously limits available options. You also want ML friendly solution, so presumably you might want to delve into nvidia's CUDA framework, so you'd need nVidia dGPU... as an alternative to XPS line, you could consider going for the MSI's more creator line of Z16P/Z17, or maybe even Asus M16 (or the forthcoming Flow X16 apparently available by June) or their Zenbook Pro 16X OLED or Vivobook Pro 16X OLED N7601 line. Of course if your workloads could be served by eg. OpenCL and GPUFORT AMD would also come into perspective. And then maybe "gaming" line of Asus G14 could suffice... It'd offer some of the best performance and battery life in a single package outside of iGPU ultraportables or Macs... Similarly, if you're interested or served by projects that work with ZLUDA or OpenCL you might be interested by eg. Lenovo Yoga 7 or Zenbook Pro 15 Flip OLED line-up with Alder Lake and Alchemist that are now hitting the markets. I guess the most interesting thing could be, if you're into optimisation and testing of the code running on GPUs, to go with Asus Flow line-ups, whether small convertible X13, small 2-in-1 Z13 or the aforementioned large convertible X16, bundled with ROG XG Mobile units with all the GPUs you may want to test your software against... But that's just my take... You could also go with some lighter iGPU option with TB port and use a proper heavy-compute-ready ML-workloads optimised GPU in an external enclosure... Maybe something like those smaller approx.13" devices with such eGPU, and then the XPS13 could be replaced by eg. ASUS Zenbook S 13 Flip OLED...
intel i9 is not a mobil processor they consume 45w and beyond....poor battery life...take account that, if the cpu name model has the 'H' consume a lot.
Great video. Thanks for talking through your decision process. Hope axel liked the smell of new computer. 🤪
he didn’t seem to be too excited by the smell of a new computer:)
13:58 Fake! I can't believe you could buy 32 GB, with all your income. But anyway thanks for respecting poor IT people.
One of my sons has the XPS 15 and it's great, bought another for my sister in law and she is loving it as well. All my sons with gaming laptops are wanting to switch to MBPs. Next to a MBP the XPS is my favorite laptop keyboard. He has the 11th Gen i9 and it get HOTs, my SILs got the i7 and it runs much cooler... I haven't compared them but I have to wonder if the i9 doesn't throttle vs the i7. Definitely interested to see your results. It's definitely the MBP of the Windows world but still not a MBP... at least IMHO.
MBp overrated
For the XPS chassis, i7 should be the limit . Not enough cooling solutions for an i9 unless you can go for the XPS 17 which have vapor chamber cooling
I would prefer 16" QHD+ with 2560x1600 resolution. That way I can use %150 scaling. I am using 4K+ @ 27" external monitor with same scaling. That way, I prevent scaling issues which we come across on some apps becoming blurry when the scaling changes..
M16 etc has that option..
Just buy a Rider license. Much cheaper than a Windows laptop.
One thing that I love about Macs is how easy it is to buy them. If you embark on a search for a windows laptop, a single page of shop results can be 200 items. Too many places to buy. Too many options. I wish Microsoft themselves would have a shop page similar to Apple, but that's probably not going to happen and is kind of against their ethos.
That is an advange, just like Android. I might want a gaming laptop, someone might want an office one, one might want a convertible, someone might need a rugged one etc. Apple ones cannot handle some of those workflows. It goes both ways.
@@FlorinArjocu typical apple fan too whiny to search vigorously for BETTER and REASONABLE PRICE OPTION
@@annoyingisheep574 This year Apple managed something really good with their M1, so it made their job much easier. Pretty much every laptop comparison I see is between iMac Pro and some x86. I am looking to change my older laptop and it is hard to watch those tests, I am gelous Apple made such a good machine but we have to suffer for no having some of those goodies on x86 (no noise, huge battery life, good screen, for many workloads excellent performance, very good fit&finish Al body etc.). But, I don't want to jump into their ship as I know what it means and I do like my linux.
just wondering if you guys found an app that similar to nswag studio on mac? generating dotnet code to typescript?
How's .Net development in a Mac one year after thid video? I need a new laptop for .NET development but I just get crazy with fan noise which seems to be everywhere in windows laptops
it’s gotten better. pretty smooth now, with the notable exception being if you need sql server to run locally
Great video. I don’t know why, but I saw this coming. You always enjoyed the comparisons but your disappointment over Mac’s lack of optimization in your workflow started to show. What you proved and may now take for granted was how good Apple products are. Apple is not the best in everything but they ARE the best in more things than any of the competition.
Thanks! 😀
apple are the best in only few tasks and few perks, everywhere else where work os involved its either one of the worst or in some cases as good as competitors
You should have checked the precision line.. i ordered a 5570, not received yet, but i maybe rather would have the midnight macbook air with 24gig m2..
The thing I love about the macs (at least the m1, my first) is how quiet they are. Total silence, love it
I recommend you to wait for the i9 129850hx it supports ECC memory and for the GPU go for RTX Quadro a5000 (the HX version is a game-changer for mobile CPU )
Great video! I’m at the same point right now. I use Macs for awhile but now I need to do some Windows admin tasks and I’m looking for a good Window dev laptop. I was looking at the XPS 15 as well and I’m curious to see how you like it.
What ML stuff are planning to do?
Me, in Apple ecosystem but got base spec dell 13 9305 refurbished for like ~$600. It only has 8gb but I was able to upgrade SSD. I run Arch Linux with Windows 11 inside QEMU/KVM and it runs fine. Linux OS and apps run pretty light and quick on KDE. I find build quality pretty decent 4/5. My only complaint is small trackpad. Also for some reason on my 27" QHD monitor, I can get Linux to 2560x1440 fine but Windows VM will only adjust to 2560x1600 but not 2560x1440 for some reason.
Great video, thank you for the great content.
Imo, 1440p is the sweet spot for laptops..
Hi, i am using the dell precision 55xx series, has the portability as its the XPS form factor but has the quadro rtx graphics in it. For ML tasks it eats it up.
Should have gone with MSI
6:50 GPU = General Processing Unit. lmao
Don’t know where you live but in the US it’s “supply chain” delaying all products.
have you tried using a parallels virtual machine? i found coherence mode quite easy to work with for most of my needs
i prefer 720p screen but there's no more. 1080p is the limit for a 14" screen i think and even for a 16".
Any reason for Intel over amd?
Dell underpowers its processors. Lenovo has bad displays & HP has poor touchpads.
Make sure the screen is 16:10 and make sure is matte finish
The new MacBooks have mini led. Not oled
just realized i'm been watching your videos basically everyday for the last week or so and i'm not subbed... sorry about that. Fixing now
1080p is low and 4K is a lot. QHD is the sweet spot
I would say the Lenovo legion slim 7 2022 with the miniLED screen is another great option
Rider > VS For Mac
I've to work on a project that involves windows app development. I'm looking for VM or a docker workflow. Would be cool if you could make a video on something similar.
Thanks!
Get the 4K display. Your eyes will thank you.
Short answer: “Get Thinkpad”.
It has best in class keyboard, build quality is same as MacBook and I believe can be configured.
But unfortunately, you already get Dell 😄
I bought an i7 Lenovo X1 Extreme Gen 2 for my son just when it was released. It had what seemed to be BIOS/UEFI/firmware problems, but Lenovo had me send it back to replace the motherboard. It lasted less than two years, and now doesn't even get to the boot screen. I would suggest paying for an extended warranty. As a backup laptop, I bought a cheap HP. The design & build quality are terrible (it flexes, and the battery died), but at least the HP still works. The Lenovo is much better than HP, but I can't recommend either.
My work thinkpad is pretty garbo to be honest. The plastic feels grimy even after wiping it, trackpad is weird. And wtf is up with the function key being where the control key should be?
What about the samsung galaxy book 2 pro 360?
ASUS Zenbook with ryzen 6800U or vivobook S14 oled 2022.
Try Lenovo thinkpad they come with Linux and Windows install.. and thinkpad have the best keyboard then any laptop
1. WSL will do all of the stuff you need, so there is no reason to dual boot.
2. Friends don't let friends dev on Windows laptops. It isn't the same as Mac. They SUCK HARD for dev.
3. 16 Gigs is not good enough for Windows dev. 32 is a minimum.
WSL is pretty neat. I believe there is some extra perf squeeze when running Linux on metal - will have to confirm
@@AZisk Good to test, but I'm seeing very much less than 5% with WSL 2. The trick is to get WSL 2 to actually work, because they've made a mess of the install process and it defaults to WSL 1 if you're not careful.
@@jameshancock there are issues with the filesystem performance on WSL2. I have an ubuntu vm(virtualbox) running and it's way faster than WSL2 ubuntu
@@jose6183 I’m not noticing that. Wsl 1 had issues with many small reads but wsl 2 is very fast. Even running MySQL in it is pretty good.
Waiting for this content!
1080p is a joke. 1200 minimum.
Sad that before the HD hoax on pc laptops they had higher resolution displays on laptops.
That is more than 10 years ago i had 1200 on my HP laptop
Dell Precision 5xxx or 7xxx. It's awesome.
Well nice broo very rare seing programers using windows besides their needs
Sad your missing out on ryzen
Take Samsung GalaxyBook2 Pro (360), they have 12th gen i7 processor, 15.6 Amoled 1080P screen, super thin and light.
Yep, that's the same set up I got. No regrets.
Aaaa, I hope you try Dell Precision 5470 compare with Macbook 14 pro. But nice choose ;)
The DELL XPS is the most exciting windows laptop for me as a daily Mac user. What the f happened to Lenovo. They just milking the Thinkpad brand these days.
Never ever a Dell again. Always had the top range model and always the same stupid problems. Back to LENOVO for me, preferably X1 Carbon. Or Microsoft Surface.
Why just not to use Parallel desktop or Windows Boot camp on a Mac? The best Windows experience I have ever had was on Mac Boot camp.
Because boot camp only works on Intel Macs, and even using parallels means having to install the Arm version of Windows, which causes issues with some development
@@Buttface1981 oh, you're completely right. I totally forgot about it.
you think in those xps laptops cpu and gpu go 100% , i doubt these really are good laptopa for work
I love your videos but my question wich is best to program code mac or windows?