13 inch screen is a toy usable only for browsing social media and not for real work.

swiftcoder 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

That's a take, for sure. I use a 14" as my daily driver. Sure, I plug it into a big monitor when I'm at my desk, but it's perfectly usable standalone.

I used to use an 11" as my daily driver (and that was before retina-resolutions were a thing). It wasn't ideal, but it was fine for development work.

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ghaff 29 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

13 seems to have emerged as the generally best compromise for using at your desk and traveling. Even a 15” is still small relative to an external monitor and is getting large to fly with.

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arccy 36 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

yeah real programmers only use the biggest screens, the bestest cpus, and discrete graphics

	▲	ghaff 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Companies have standardized on, mostly, 13” laptops with whatever accessories. But, honestly, for some people who never leave their desk, a desktop of some sort is probably a better choice— though just connecting to a server works too.

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BoxwoodSeed 44 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

You don't use your laptop as just a thin client connecting to a more powerful machine over the Internet?

	▲	codedokode 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		No, I do not. We don't even always have Internet nowadays. And how does this solve the small screen size problem?