Which macbook to get in 2020 for web programming?

Question

macbook

Thinking about macbook pro 13 2020. This will be my first apple laptop. Will he be okay? Budget up to 85k (35k UAH) I need to open webshtorm, photoshop and 20 tabs in chrome.

Answer 1

Take the one you have enough money for. It's impossible to guess here.
It will pull, yes.

Answer 2

I will share my personal experience. Used macbook pro 2016 (15'', 16GB RAM, 256 SSD) for a little over two years.
Then I moved to a Windows machine.
I do web development and not only: JS/TS NodeJs, PHP WordPress, JS/TS Electron.
Pros of macbook

• Excellent 15' screen. Although this was not enough for me, so I moved to 17.
  
• Excellent rendering of fonts. Under Windows, all the code seems to be smeared. It's very eye catching and tiresome.
  
• Convenient navigation with gestures (when you need to switch between the editor / browser / messenger a billion times an hour). Windows also has gestures, but:
  
  1. They are not made so comfortable.
     
  2. The touchpad is just awful.
     
  
  
• Relatively not bad performance, up to a certain point. Working with average nodejs projects is easy for him.
  
• Good autonomy. Half the working day can be spent without connecting to the network and extra wires.
  
• He is very quiet. Even under load, it only makes a little more noise than my new machine at rest.
  
• It is possible to test in Safari
  

Of the minuses

• Insufficient performance from a certain point. When the IDE starts up in it with observers, a couple of browsers and a couple of applications on electron, the system starts to heat up mercilessly. Cooling doesn't work. Nothing lags, but it burns hands.
  
• Just a disgusting keyboard. But it seems like in the 2020 version this case should be better. Typing on it is not comfortable, but the reliability of the keys ... The first key broke a month after purchase.
  
• Very small storage. My configuration had a 256GB SSD. This is catastrophically small. Especially if you work with npm and each project weighs at least a gigabyte. It's moments like these that you start to appreciate Deno's approach to dependencies.
  
• Like it or not, there is a need to install windows on it. Often there is a need to test the site in a browser under windows. Or check the performance of an application written under windows. Installing it is not difficult, but working is those dances with a tambourine. And it takes a good chunk of the already small SSD.
  
• Constant problems due to the "security" of MacOS. Every now and then you can't run something, compile some npm package, or whatever, because MacOS... Often you need to install xcode to install some package from npm. And this dog weighs, if I'm not mistaken, 18 gigabytes. And I repeat - a small SSD where every kilobyte counts.
  
• It is possible to test in Safari. Which means you have to do it. Safari is a terrible browser. Even not so much for the user, but for the developer.
  

Answer 3

The newest one you can afford.

Answer 4

If you are not familiar with web programming and want to get acquainted, then i3 with ssd (128-256) is enough for you. And if you are familiar and want a good laptop, then take this option.

Answer 5

I took it with 8GB of RAM and wished it constantly eats up to zero, although the laptop is used as a typewriter and browser view. If you need both IDE and PS at the same time, take better 16GB of RAM.

Answer 6

It will be stupid normally, most likely you will regret what you bought. Especially if you open another photoshop or Figma ...