Some of them were trying out Apple Silicon replacements, though I'm not aware of what they did monitor wise. Probably used the excuse to buy a single large ultrawide each instead, though I don't actually know. ;)
MacBook Air is a world-leading form factor for travel, it's not "low-end".
MBA with extra storage/RAM can exceed revenue of base MBP.
The travel form factor of MBA is not available for MBP, for any price.
Heh, that's not how I would describe MacBook Pros. ;)
Honestly, I'm an accountant and everyone in my office uses 2-3 monitors with $1,200 business ultrabook.
you're saying they're low-end because Intel? if you've got your macbook connected to two monitors, you're not very concerned about battery performance.
So isn't Intel silicon competitive speedwise? I thought the M[0-4]s were OK but sort of hypey as to being better in all regards.
I’d seriously consider not taking a job if they were still on Intel MacBooks. I appreciate that an arch switch isn’t a piece of cake for many many workloads, and it isn’t just a sign of employers cheaping out. But for me it’s just been such a significant improvement.
And even if you do not care about battery, you still care about throttling.
Real world, the M series chips are by far the best I’ve ever used as a software engineer and it’s not even close.
What dev shop immediately buys all developers the newest and shiniest thing as soon as its released without trialing it first?
At least at the time, things worked a bit easier having the entire pipeline (dev -> prod) use a single architecture.
(Overall the transition was super smooth, but it wasn't instant or without bumps)
If the company bought Pro or Max chips and not base models, it wouldn’t be a problem.
But with the general power of the base model Apple Silicon I don't think most dev shops really need the higher end models, honestly.