Ultimate Web Developer MacBook

Can you do one for real developers now?

ONLY 8? I have 2 cores 4 gigs of RAM and ChromeOS which locked me out of BIOS

hello do you think the 15 inch air model will behave same as the 13 inch air?

I'm a web developer, but besides the common tasks, I need to run virtual os on VMware, which takes cpu cores and ram, and yheah, I need extra monitor to plug in for work, so I consider macbook pro on m1 pro, 16gb ram and 512gb rom, what you, guys, could recommend to choose?

Hahaha 😂
Probably u are not a web developer dude.
Min required is 32gb ram 8/16 cpu.
Dockers running, browser with 100+ tabs, 5+ terminal, ubuntu on wsl in background, music player, vscode indexing stuff, ai intellisense etc.
Not to mension that a simple: npm ci way use 7gb ram easily on a large project 😂
So its 32gb MINIMUM.
Some of my projects open up in vscode for like 30 sec until the ide stops indexing with a 8/16 @ 3.8ghz

Ps: u sure u are a web developer?

Developers sit a lot of time on screen. Could you test how it affects eyes😂 refresh rate or lcd screen really matters ?

Good video, would have been nice to leave the time over each laptop as you read them out so make it easier to visually compare.

Is M2 air base model enough for learning front end web dev ??

M2 MBA in what spec? Base 8GB RAM + 256GB SSD?

Is the MBA 8GB or 16GB RAM?

Nice

bro I'm confused i have tight budget which one to buy as a web developer and mobile developer MacBook air m1 16gb 256fb or intel I7 13900HX with 4050 6gb ram both have almost same price in India

Splitting hairs 😂😂

I own a m2 max with 32gb ram. It lasts all day and it's awesome. I code in nextjs & ts

what's the conclusion which one is the best for web developer finally....?

>gatsby
bruh

Show off!!! 😁

Still need Intel native support 😢

If you do web development the most important equipment you need is good internet for buildings, to download packages)

Do not forget that you can use DisplayLink to connect several monitors to MacBook Air.
I'm using 3 external monitors with my Air M2.

The MacBook Air 15 changes everything.

Thanks Alex, you really helped me to choose the right laptop

you are not a web developer and still watchig this video to kill time like me.

Result table would be great in that type of test, appreciate your work though!

How was the kernel task cpu? Did it spike?

wtf are the links to the benchmark tests?

How much ram needed for web development?

"He doesn't have feelings"

ChatGPT overlord enters the chat

The terminal should be in dark mode. :D

macbook air 15 m2 with 16gb , enough for programmer who are running docker, aws, dotnet, nodejs, linux, jetbrain rider/intellij, postgres?

send a macbook for me :)

I could be more helpful if you keep the metric results visible at the same time!

As of speed I am fine with Air but I like the big screen. Perfect for me would be Air with 16" screen for like $2k :)

the main product app of the company I work for, takes 30 minutes to compile an angular2 app in a hp elitebook running ubuntu 22 with 32GB of RAM if you make the mistake of not running it with a "nice", disconnected my session from teams (I hate any chat that demands me to connect using snapped electron apps when we could be using private irc)

I see a lot of talk about the MacBook Air only support one external display, which is true. Just wanted to let people know that there are ways around that. My main monitor has support for USB-C power delivery and has a USB-C hub built in. I have an OWC DisplayLink adapter plugged into the monitors USB-C hub with two HDMI cables running out to two other monitors. This way I have my MacBook Air connected with a single cable that does display and power and it drives all three of the external displays.

The same thing would work without a monitor that has a USB-C hub, you just would have more then one cable connected to the computer and my OCD would not allow for that.

I have been using it for months now and have not noticed any issues with using those monitors over display link.

Build times of entire repo may not be the best test. Most builds during an average day are incremental. The question is how they perform with background tasks - chrome (mem/cpu/gpu hog), a local database (mostly idle), sourcetree (always seems to crash with multiple projects open).

is M1 Pro not worth at all rn?

What's your opinion for the new 15 inch air model?

Running ASP dotnet on these machine, which is a better choice?

Thank you for your video, I really needed a video display the comparison between these laptops and now I can say I can get m2 max with 32 GB RAM peacefully.

looks like a s*x machine

Alex, thanks for the video. But, developing - it is not only about compiling scripts. We are running docker containers, we are searching info in browser, running heavy IDEs (PHPStorm and so on) and many other tasks. I believe You need to test how IDE works with a big project on these machines, that is what really makes sense.

I have the previous air and it is great… but the main drawback is: just one external display. The speed is enough, everything is smooth… but oh how I want to connect my second external screen…🤷‍♂️

please do unit/e2e tests comparing !
that is something that dev would run a lot through the day, and also benefit a lot from extra cores

they need linux

What was the first build you run ? The one within 8/9 seconds

Hi Alex, please do benchmarks for the LAMP stack (apache, php, mariadb) and remember to include AMD and Intel so we are sure Apple Silicon works for php development

These tests are too synthetic. I want to know how long does it take to index symbols for a new webstorm project, or better yet - xcode with cocoapods.

I want to run a local kubernetes cluster for 50 days, and then restart the whole thing.

I want to spin up an ephemeral backend for integration tests.

And if I do a build, it’s always something silly like an unsupported version of node rebuilding scss using clang. The build runs for what feels like eternity, and then fails. So you delete all node modules, and bump everything, reinstall, reindex symbols, and… see above.

Can you make review about AMD Ryzen 7940hs vs M2 Pro.
From performance, Battery Life as well the Ryzen AI.

Alex, I really enjoy your videos! Thank you for your videos! The test cases that I would be very interested in is when you do all the tests, that you do regularly, but with a lot of stuff open(docker, lots of chrome tabs, mutiple projects in multiple IDEs, ..ect) . I suppose some of your other subscribers would be interested in this to. I think this would demonstrate very well how these machines differ for developers, as we have a lot of stuff open at the same time most of the time. Multitasking + benchmarks would be very interesting. I am using personally Macbook pro 16 m1 pro 16gb usually with a lot of stuff open and having slowdowns because of ram amount (having like 10-15bg swap).