I just had this epiphany. I tried to explain this too my friends but I still out nerd them and they aren't very excitable. I just bought one of the HiDPI monitor for super cheap and it does suck going back to the MBA screen, not just for real estate but quality (and Mac font rendering, bleck). What I can't get over is how much more productive I am. I can have three different bits of code side-by-side, a terminal with gdb, Chrome open with docs, all in one screen.
That's HUGE, at least for me. I'm constantly alt-tabing or changing workspaces on my Mac and every second I have to wait for that animation, or look at that variable name, or remember why it return an (int, error) not just (int), I was losing my momentum.
Honestly, I'm excited to start my full time job to buy another of these bad boys to use at work.
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I just had this epiphany. I tried to explain this too my friends but I still out nerd them and they aren't very excitable. I just bought one of the HiDPI monitor for super cheap and it does suck going back to the MBA screen, not just for real estate but quality (and Mac font rendering, bleck). What I can't get over is how much more productive I am. I can have three different bits of code side-by-side, a terminal with gdb, Chrome open with docs, all in one screen.
That's HUGE, at least for me. I'm constantly alt-tabing or changing workspaces on my Mac and every second I have to wait for that animation, or look at that variable name, or remember why it return an (int, error) not just (int), I was losing my momentum.
Honestly, I'm excited to start my full time job to buy another of these bad boys to use at work.