It’s not even horribly slow. It works fine. It’s just a chat program. It’s the right trade off for the job.

Doing more work for no reason is stupid even if you the have money of a small nation.

The inevitable differences between platforms you get with all native everything isn’t a good user experience, either. Now you need to duplicate your documentation and support pages and have support staff available to address every platform. And what’s the payoff? Saving 80MB of RAM? Gaining milliseconds of latency that Joe Business will never notice as he’s hunt and pecking his way through the interface?

I thought we were done with Electron hate articles. It’s so 2018 to complain about it. It’s like talking about millennials and their skinny jeans. Yawn.

Bad advice. You want to have at least one managerial role on your resume before you turn 40/45/50 so you can get hired as you age, and being offered one is something that doesn’t happen often. It’s far easier to go back to IC than to hope someone offers you an EM role later. I say take it while the offer is there.

There’s far less age discrimination when you’re looking for management and strategy oriented roles. Those roles want experience, not the raw energy, output, and fresh skills of a younger IC.

Anyone who cares about value isn’t getting a non-base model Mac. They are buying the silver shiny thing or their company is paying.

For example, grab yourself an Omen Transcend 14, spec it to 64GB RAM and the RTX 5070. You’re under $2000 and getting better graphics performance for anything that isn’t AI, and you’ve got an upgradable 1TB SSD and removable WiFi card.

You’re also getting an OLED screen which most people would prefer.

This model in particular I’ve chosen because it’s just as quiet as the M4 MacBook Pro models within 3dB during high intensity usage and gets very similar battery life, actually better battery life than the M4 Pro/Max models for light tasks.