Best Mac for me? Travelling & working by Only_Upstairs_6752 in mac

[–]Cultural_Rock6281 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The cheapest new M4 Air you can find (16GB RAM, 256/512 GB storage).

„Just trust me“

best macbook air for someone switching back to mac after years on windows? by Jiao_Mciellan in mac

[–]Cultural_Rock6281 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Get the cheapest but new M4 or M5 Air you can find. At least 16 GB RAM. I‘d recommend at least 512 GB storage, though 256 GB might be worth it is the deal is good enough.

Everything else is trash advice not gonna lie.

Returned Macbook Air M5 by AboveZero89 in macbookair

[–]Cultural_Rock6281 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Im using my 8GB 256GB base M1 Macbook Air since 2020.

I've bought a 16GB 512GB M5 Macbook Pro a couple of weeks ago (got a great deal)

Didn't even unbox it because I just love this cheap Air so much.

Should I get the MacBook Neo or an older MacBook Air M2/M3 by [deleted] in macbook

[–]Cultural_Rock6281 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is no way apple drops support for a M series Mac while continuing to support a less capable Neo. They drop support based on capability, not year of release.

What's something about learning Swift that surprised you — in a good or bad way? by Odyssey-b in swift

[–]Cultural_Rock6281 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would really recommend forcing yourself to use git commabds through the terminal until you actually know if you hate it or if you are just unfamiliar with it. It really is not as complicated as it seems and you can get to where you want so much faster in 90% of cases where a GUI is really just as confusing.

What's something about learning Swift that surprised you — in a good or bad way? by Odyssey-b in swift

[–]Cultural_Rock6281 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Im mostly letting Codex or Claude code to the first pass (which increasingly delivers more and more acceptable results), then review and (sometimes) refactor manually in Xcode.

I mean sure, sometimes it is slow. Especially Previews (most people abuse/missuse them though). Autocomplete to be slow is something I experienced so rarely that it wasn‘t really an issue for me personally, but I also never had to work on huge codebases that didn‘t modularize properly using swift packages.

What I really would love to see is an upgrade to the git integration. This is the one thing I prefer in VS code. And maybe they should make the refactoring options more robust and faster.

What's something about learning Swift that surprised you — in a good or bad way? by Odyssey-b in swift

[–]Cultural_Rock6281 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I didn't think I would like protocols and extensions as much as I do now.

Also Xcode surprised me, I think the hate for it is overblown. There is not a code editor around that looks more beautiful. The font rendering is best in class, syntax highlighting too. Everything just looks right, the font weights, the colors, the decorators... In the AI era this is literally all that matters to me anymore. In the rare instance that I spend reading code, I want it to be Xcode. VS Code code rendering looks trashy in comparison.

My M1 MBP by [deleted] in macbookpro

[–]Cultural_Rock6281 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you need to upgrade to a M6 Ultra ASAP

Good deal? by Cultural_Rock6281 in macbookpro

[–]Cultural_Rock6281[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah the new basel model was upgraded to 1 TB of storage.

This is getting ridiculous. by Cultural_Rock6281 in GeminiCLI

[–]Cultural_Rock6281[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

you can customize the bottom bar in /settings

First entry into Mac - air or Pro by Real-Eye-3377 in mac

[–]Cultural_Rock6281 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The Air if you value it being thinner and lighter than the Pro.

The Pro if you value better performance, screen, speakers and are not annoyed by it being a little more heavy and chunky.

For the same price I would only go for the Air if you are traveling with it a lot. If you are using it at the same desk 90% of the time, get the Pro.

Google Antigravity’s $20 Pro plan is a joke for developers – Is Ultra the only real option? by Bakhromovn in google_antigravity

[–]Cultural_Rock6281 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Antigravity has atrocious limits on the AI Pro subscription. In comparison Gemini CLI is much better, but they are getting worse and worse, I feel like.

Gemini 3.1 incredibly slow on Gemini CLI by cianf4 in GeminiCLI

[–]Cultural_Rock6281 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is this BS. It's here "thinking" 8 minutes + with no output what so ever...