Yeah, who the hell associates macs with higher competence? Before the 00s, I associated mac users with stumbling on the worse option but not realizing it, after the 00s, wanting to follow trends and/or overpay for hardware to seem rich. They've always been form over function, and simplicity over power, which are things that novice uses look for, not more experienced ones.

Or maybe more experienced ones when most of those experiences went badly and little was learned.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

A MacBook pro, if you're into the apple ecosystem, is a solid option. You can run Linux and Windows in parallels and do your development on there, and for a lot of development workloads it's sufficiently performant.

I like my system76 laptop, but I ran a MacBook pro for a couple years and it was solid, and this was over 10 years ago.

[–] expr@programming.dev 4 points 7 hours ago

I think the point is not that it's a MacBook, but that the senior is using a single laptop instead of a full multi-monitor setup.

Personally as a senior, I use 4 monitors. My eyes are too shit to stare at a tiny laptop screen all day, and I want slack/browser/terminal windows on their own screens. It's much more comfortable as well.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Advertising, and Apple buying up some professional software to discontinue their non-Apple versions (as well as disabling customization as "they know better than the users") made it equal with "professionalism".

[–] szczuroarturo@programming.dev 5 points 12 hours ago

Im pretty sure its mostly battery life.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 4 points 13 hours ago

You can pry my T440 from my cold dead hands or, at the least, give me a bit of notice so I can fish out my X220. Or my X80. Or my other X220. Or my T420... I might have a problem.