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Exactly what I was thinking when I read the spec sheet: 'I wonder how many developers will go for the maxed out version.'

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Definitely going from 2015 MacBook Air to this new one for my personal at-home coding laptop, as long as I like the keyboard when trying it out.

I had really been wanting to upgrade for Retina & better processor but I knew they would upgrade the processor and fix the keyboard if I waited for 2020... no reason to wait now.

I don't run any crazy fat Docker stacks for my own stuff at home, so this is perfect.

why not the pro for a few more hundred dollars? or wait for the upgraded version in the summer? you get a noticeable performance boost, dedicated graphics card, touch bar, and so on?

I really don't need that much extra memory or performance, I thoroughly dislike the touch bar, and I want a slimmer/lighter form factor.

My at-home hobby work is in Golang and Python, and not particularly compute-intensive stuff. Neither of those have huge heavy toolchains.

Really the main thing driving an upgrade from my minimum-spec 2015 Air is the Retina display.

My personal laptop is an 11" Air mid-2013 and I still use and love it. I especially love the keyboard on it because the keys have height, feel closer to a mechanical keyboard, and don't capture as much dust and dirt as the flat keys on my newer touchbar 2016 pro work laptop

This is good news from Apple as I was not into any of their more recent laptops but I'll probably upgrade to this one

I only wish they had a 11" version but not a deal breaker

Same for me, although it’s a 2012 11". The 13" model here is actually somewhere in between the old 11" and 13" for size.

I probably would except for the lack of ports and weak CPU.

Still just waiting on a new 14" MBP.

you actually make use of 4 usbc connections? I'm genuinely curious on the use case. These days you can get 12 in 1 dongles from china that cover the last 25 years of input device standards into one usbc connection, and it will charge the thing.

Not a big fan of dongles.

Why though? I find buying one $30 dongle that has 10 inputs for cables I already own is a better deal than buying 10 $20 usbc cables. As a mac user I've been used to dongles for a while, mac laptops never seemed to have the standard AV out aside from that fluke generation with HDMI. Always some weird connector for the sake of being weird, it seemed.

I don't love coding on a tiny screen when I'm not using my laptop keyboard to awkwardly type with an external monitor.

Seriously considering trading my maxed out 2018 13" for this, but in the end probably not going to do it.

I am.

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