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Coding? All of it. C++, Node, frontend... The dense screen is great and flipping to portrait can be nice. Keyboard? Anything USB or Bluetooth. Only one USB po
by doublerebel 9y ago
Coding? All of it. C++, Node, frontend... The dense screen is great and flipping to portrait can be nice.
Keyboard? Anything USB or Bluetooth. Only one USB port, though.
Display? Pretty bright, the spec is posted if you look. Glossy, but everything is these days.
VM? Sure, it's a 2 core 4 thread processor, just order enough RAM. My i7 has Hyper-V but I don't know if that extends across all procs.
- csixty4 9y agoA Surface with i5 does Hyper-V nicely. The current incarnation of Docker keeps a Hyper-V VM running for Linux containers, but my understanding is it'll soon just use the kernal's Linux support.
- akavel 9y agoI have a Core m3 SP4 (because fanless), and am running Hyper-V on it too, with NixOS. That said, I wasn't able to give it more than 1.5 GB RAM, and even this only after I temporarily close Firefox on the host. (Firefox starts a-OK afterwards, even with numerous tabs open.) Some details on running NixOS in Hyper-V, in case anyone's interested: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/master/microsoft/hyper-v-guest.md https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/master/microsof... EDIT: ah, yes: worth to note, the first specimen I bought had some kind of hardware issue; the GPU driver was crashing somewhat frequently, and the whole machine was crashing from time to time too (like, a couple times a week). Was super disheartening. Fortunately, I was able to replace it in the shop where I got it (they had a limited time offer where you could replace during the first month, no questions asked; http://x-kom.pl http://x-kom.pl, just to thank them through some lip service). The replacement doesn't show such problems, fortunately (over a year already).