Time for a new laptop

I guess I'm leaning toward a PC. I want to run up to three external screens, how much ram should I get? Will a USB port multiplier work? Or do I need to get a machine that has several HDMI ports?
One of my platforms is written for a single-core processor and multiple cores don't speed up processing. What's the fastest single core available? Is that a bad idea?
 
According to Russel Peters, macbook is ‘stupid people friendly’ laptop, so if you don’t want to do much except analyzing trades and do some basic computer stuff, macbook will serve you well.
 
My theory is that if you can't answer your own questions and need advice from random people on the internet... you should just buy the "prettiest" machine you can afford. It'll be a toy at this point anyway and nowadays your money goes pretty far in terms of hardware. You'll figure everything else out along the way.

Otherwise, forget the laptop and book some time on this thing.

This advice may sound facetious but I'm being dead serious.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
Been running windows 10 on a macbook for years. With the non-intel chips you need to run parallels, which I have not tried.
 
ValeryN said:
MacBooks M-s are a huge step up. Great value for the price these days. I'd say get the basic M2 Air see how you like it. Their screen size feel very big because bezel is much thinner.

I have maxed out M1 Pro 14 inch, it is a total overkill pretty much for anything. Recently bought an M2 13 inch Air basic model just for a trip, was blowns away how fast and effecient on battery it is. 8GB memory was enough to even do some emergency programming with Docker containers and JVM, which I did not expect to go well on 8GB config.

On a very rare occasion you will bump into something not running on ARM (which is M-s architecture), but it quite rare these days, the only annoyance was rebuilding my VMs. I miss that M2.. sold it after, couldn't justify to keep. Beefed up versions with more CPU/GPUs and RAM are much less battery effecient. Still great but not excellent.

Had no problems with displays. 3 different brands in different rooms, all work.
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Great post!
 
long said:
That's my issue. I currently use three different platforms that are installed on my PC. Two of them have web versions as well but I've never liked using them. There are less functions and the browser takes up to much screen real estate.
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Mac OS strength is media production and current hardware is ARM based. So, running PC apps on Mac OS is a bit of a challenge.
 
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