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It'd have to be a 2015 Retina Macbook Pro for me. Magsafe charging is as robust as it gets. Not too heavy but still can be configured with plenty of CPU/RAM/SSD. I've dropped my 2014 plenty of times and it's just got a few scratches around the aluminium but there's no hinge or port damage.

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Personally, I feel nothing beats a Mac for overall software development, especially if you are a full stack developer and you like to be able to use all kinds of tools if need be.

I see a lot of people like the ThinkPads and I'm sure they are great, but the secret sauce is not just the machine, but the OS, and macOS is still glorious (it's a UNIX desktop OS!)

I'm not going to tell anyone they must use a Mac, but generally if I see a room full of developers, 90% of them will have Macs. Surely that says something.

Same thing with students. Maybe it's different in other countries, but I think this is the norm in both the US and Europe at the very least.

"I'm not going to tell anyone they must use a Mac, but generally if I see a room full of developers, 90% of them will have Macs. Surely that says something"

I did not use Mac yet and would like to try it someday. But I know a quite profane proverb for this thinking: "eat shit, ten million fly cannot be wrong"

I have never seen a developer with Mac in my life - only managers. Developers use highest grade of ThinkPads Dells and HP so consider this to be more of a cultural thing around your country/part of world.

That's interesting. Where are you located?

My 2014 rMBP shit the bed recently. Don’t feel comfortable buying any of the newer MacBooks (I hate mine at work).

Apple should make a MacBook Pro SE; old form, updated internals.

My 2013 rMBP still works very well but I’m nervous about what I’ll do once it breaks or I decide to upgrade. I want to stay with MacBooks but I don’t like their current lineup. I hope they’ll do better in 2019.

I really really wish they would keep the outer hardware of the 2015 and make it more powerful going forward. If they embrace that Macbooks are the standard for a lot of development, and make a "developer-book", I would be ecstatic! In the meantime I will use my 2015 retina.

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