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If you want to buy a laptop that almost certain to work out of the gates yes the OPs question is perfectly valid. Can you take anylap top and get it to work?
by ProAm 10y ago
If you want to buy a laptop that almost certain to work out of the gates yes the OPs question is perfectly valid. Can you take anylap top and get it to work? Of course, its just a matter of how much time you want to invest, vs investing that time in actually developing. Both is time spent well, however only 1 will make you money.
- vladimir-y 10y agoIt's one time setup, I believe it's better to not limit youself in laptop choices for developers since it's your main tool, a tool that makes money for you. I'm for example would not be comfortable working on daily basis using heavy/creaky/noisy laptop which has a bad keyboard, bad screen, etc.
- sirspudd 10y agoUnfortunately it still feels cheaper to purchase a Windows laptop, and simply scrape Windows off its boot. I object to being gouged for opting to run a certain system. The amount of invested time required to get modern Linux up on a non-psychotic (psycho like the Yoga 910) is a solid investment to the required baseline of competence required to be a Linux dev.
- grogenaut 10y agoOnce upon a time dell would let you return the OEM CD if you weren't going to use windows. I wonder if they still do that. They could invalidate the OEM key to windows, not sure if microsoft would care to implement that and give dell the money back.