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I developed on one of those for a year. It was awesome for basic web development. I did a lot of react and ruby development on that thing. However, my workload

by zumu 10y ago

I developed on one of those for a year. It was awesome for basic web development. I did a lot of react and ruby development on that thing. However, my workload eventually evolved to require running several docker containers (micro-services), which really killed overall performance. React-native development was similarly painful. Ultimately, I was forced to upgrade to a thinkpad, but I will always have much love for that little chromebook.

nickjj 10y ago
Did you have the same exact model (down to the year and everything), because the earlier version of the one I linked was a lot worse. I've ran some pretty heavy work loads on the one I linked without issues (and this is comparing it to a high powered i5 desktop). For example in the blog post, I mention running this: - Google Chrome with 6 tabs open - Youtube playing back a video (streaming music is important!) - Docker daemon - Dockerized Rails app with 28 gems - Dockerized Sidekiq background work - Dockerized Action Cable server - Dockerized Postgres and Redis - Sublime Text 3 with about 30 plugins - 2 terminal windows, one with 2 tabs and the other with 3 - 1 PDF open with the native PDF viewer - A 2nd workspace with another Google Chrome window and 3 more tabs And it took it like a champ. No severe slow downs or thinking "meh, I should be on my workstation, this sucks!".