Devs: How Does Your Personal Laptop Compare to Your Work Laptop?
How does your personal machine compare to your work laptop? If you were going to get a new personal computer/laptop today, what would you go with? Just curious as I consider replacing my aging 2016 MacBook Pro as my personal laptop (especially since costs might go up soon for electronics, due to tariffs). For work, I’ve got a 2019 MacBook Pro. More details below: Personal machine: 2016 MacBook Pro 13-inch 2 Thunderbolt ports 2 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 processor 16 GB memory 250 GB storage Work machine: 2019 MacBook Pro 16-inch 4 Thunderbolt ports 2.6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7 processor 32 GB memory 500 GB storage Essentially, I’m thinking of a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro. Not quite sure which specs to go with. I don’t need crazy capabilities at this time for personal hacking/development, but I’d like to be able to build and run stuff locally using stuff like LangGraph to build AI tools. ...