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@csessh pardon?

you must be doing it wrong. Wouldn't trade my MacBook Pro for anything else

@csessh Hmm... well maybe I'm doing it wrong then ;)
My couple of years old lenovo laptop with linux performs better than my work macBook pro

@olpe much better put. That we can agree upon.

Yeah but your Lenovo doesn't have the shiny shiny apple logo on the back, and really that's why we buy it.

That and the user interface, gestures, look and feel and broad range of Dev tools makes it really fun to use, as well as performant. For me at least!

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Have you installed brew? Because that solved a whole load of problems for me when I swapped to a macbook.

@automattech Yeah I have installed brew and actually surviving with this machine. Even getting some shit done with this. I used to wonder why would any serious dev use a mac for development

For me, I usually do a biannual clean install of the OS. Cleans up most of the cruft left around by software. I would do that with my Linux machine, too.

Been doing that for about 4 years and I've actually seen performance gains with the new OS releases. However, it is a MacBook Pro Retina. I had a MacBook Pro with non SSD HD, and it got butt slow, even with clean installs (or perhaps because of them)

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I'd rather use Linux for development than OSX any day. There are plenty of good quality non apple laptops too.

@dpmacneil well preferably I would use Debian everywhere, but there are some stuff that I prefer on a mac over Linux, and well apply brew to bash and go

@swantzter not go the language...

There are too many langs and frameworks that I rarely can write a message without a lot of disclaimers these days...