Should I get a Macbook Pro or Air? (lemmy.world)

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I want to eventually develop apps but I wonder if I could do just as well with an Air and just maxx out the specs.

Under what circumstances should a Pro overrule the Air for my use case?

(Can linux also be dual-installed to be able to run some flavor of linux alternatively/parallel to MacOS? Might get a Framework one eventually as well

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[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

If you need to compline code into a binary file, having a faster CPU will make it faster. If you’re just running python scripts, you won’t need to worry about that.

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