The 2014 Macbook Air was my development dream machine - powerful enough with upgrades to drive my setup at work, and small enough that I didn't need a second machine to carry around. OSX is conveniently Unix-based for dev work, but unlike Linux it's homogenous enough that software is broadly available and trivial to install/maintain.<p>I don't want to leave, but after today's updates I'm left without a clue where to look for a system that's powerful, portable, and Unix.<p>What are other developers planning to do?
My next may be a dell xps 15 developer edition.
I like its frameless design and they have ubuntu preinstalled (means that they tested linux compatibility.)<p>If linux can improve 2 small things, I will ditch mac.<p>1. better touchpad support. support 3 finger gestures, allow using 3 fingers to move windows.<p>2. better retina display support.