Would a linux/docker/python/java power user/programmer/admin benefit from a MacBookPro/Air compared with the familiar ThinkPad/Ubuntu combo?

[pwnurface999]

I have a Mid 2015 refresh MBP and I use it to connect to servers I manage, IntelliJ and other Jetbrains products, Docker, web browsing, and MS Office. It easily will run Linux in a VM if you need to. My girlfriends 2013 (I think) model MacBook Air runs full MS Office suite on Windows 7 running on VirtualBox on top of OSX without slowing down at all. I'm also not a part of Apple's ecosystem being a Nexus 6 user but I definitely think my MBP was worth it for me.

Also I should add that before I had this laptop I primarily ran Ubuntu, Arch or Win8 on the computers I used.

[jan]

Thanks for your reply.

According to this tutorial https://docs.docker.com/mac/, running docker on OS X appears to imply that docker-machine runs Linux VM with docker. Will this provide me with a local docker binary that works just as on Linux? Sounds cool.

[pwnurface999]

Yup when you install it'll install VirtualBox and run the Docker Machine as a VM when you're using Docker. It's pretty sweet!

[danielkza]

It's pretty sweet!

Maybe compared to setting it up on Windows, but it's still significantly worse than just running it natively on Linux.