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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

The Macbook Pro Show - Wes and Scott Get New Laptops

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Wes and Scott talk about their new Apple MacBook Pro's with the M1 Max CPU. Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 04:30 The last time we upgraded 07:05 Initial thoughts on new MacBook Pro Apple MacBook Pro 09:23 How much RAM you might need 11:33 M1 Pro or M1 Max? 12:37 Justification as a business expense Figma Sketch We recently found that the new 2021 M1 MacBooks cut our Android build times in half. VS Code Microsoft releases M1-native Visual Studio Code for developing apps Notion Height Sublime Text 14:52 Shortening the feedback cycle 15:57 Using VS Code 21:20 Video editing on M1 MacBook Pro Mkbhd - M1 Macbook Pro review Synology Syntax.fm Ep220 The Synology Show Recut Davinci Resolve 24:27 Screenflow export comparison Screenflow 29:32 VS Code improvements SWC pnpm 32:57 The tools are no longer the bottleneck 33:37 Hardware upgrades 34:10 The notch Bartender 36:11 macOS icons have more padding 37:03 Charging and battery TS3 Plus 38:32 Fans and heat 39:18 Touch bar is gone 39:36 External displays 41:03 Battery 41:54 LG Display issue 42:51 Touch ID reader in a better spot 43:25 What's happening to your old MacBook Pro? 45:21 Ports and keyboards Tweet us your tasty treats Scott's Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes' Instagram Wes' Twitter Wes' Facebook Scott's Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready! To stuff your face with

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JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflow! Break dancing! Soft skills!

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Web development! The hastiest! The courageous! The tastiest! Web development

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treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes! Barakuda! Boss! And Scott!

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Welcome to syntax in this Monday hasty treat. We're going to be talking all about our

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new laptops. That's right. Wes and I both got new laptops. We got both got the same one,

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which is actually going to be really great that we can directly talk about our experiences.

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So, Wes and I, we're going to be giving you a bit of a hands-on, a bit of a real world

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review of these things. That's right. The new 16-inch MacBook Pros with the notch,

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with the M1X Max, whatever you call the processor. The Mac Pro, Pro Max,

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Max Pro. We're going to be talking all of that and more. My name is Scott

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Tulinski. I'm a developer from Denver, Colorado. And with me, as always, is the

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wood boss. Hey, everybody! Excited about this laptop. I am so stoked about it.

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So, it's going to be fun to share it from a developer standpoint and a video editor standpoint.

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I'm stoked about it too. I'm very, very stoked. I'm stoked about the machine.

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I'm stoked about talking about it. I'm just, I'm very into this thing.

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I'm also very into both of our sponsors today, which is two awesome S-based companies

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that's Sanity and Century. Sanity is the structured content CMS for your backend.

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And Century is the error in exception handling tool. Now, Century is one of those tools

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that if you're releasing a product out there in the world, some code that people are using,

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it's essential to have this in your tool belt. Because what this does is,

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at any time, anybody goofs up or there's some code that's a problem on your site,

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