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I am gonna be a bit off-course and say, whichever laptop you have could be the best if you play to its strengths. I used Asus x205ta laptop and it still is one
by rajeshmr 9y ago
I am gonna be a bit off-course and say, whichever laptop you have could be the best if you play to its strengths.
I used Asus x205ta laptop and it still is one of my best investments. Elsewhere on HN, i have mentioned that i setup vagrant and used the machine to its best. All i cared was to have a browser and a terminal. :)
EDIT : Asus x205ta is a $199-ish netbook.. with an atom processor and 2gb ram, 11-inch screen.
Currently i use an MBA (2015) model.
- DanBC 9y agoInstalling Linux on the ASUS x205ta is unfun. https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2254322 https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2254322 The 2 GB of ram is suboptimal for 64 bit OSs, and the 32 bit EUFI means bootloaders are not straightforward. Windows 10 is much better for this machine than Windows 8 because of the move away from WIMBoot to CompactOS. Upgrading from 8 to 10 requires at least X (I forget how many) free gigabytes, which may require removal of a bunch of software before updating. It sounds like I hate the machine, but I don't, it's a very nice tiny cheap little netbook.
- rajeshmr 9y agoActually I didn't care to install Linux ;) I used vagrant and installed Ubuntu on top of it.. used putty to ssh into the VM and for all Linux things. Browser for all internet things. Solved my use case :) a browser and a terminal for dev!