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The Lenovo X1 Carbon is great and the Costco deal mentioned below made me really think about it, but 1080p screen is just not great these days and really constr

The Lenovo X1 Carbon is great and the Costco deal mentioned below made me really think about it, but 1080p screen is just not great these days and really constrains working screen real estate. Have you considered Google Pixelbook? 16GB RAM, 512GB drive, 7th gen i7 and a beautiful design for ~$1700. I’ve used crouton on an older Pixel and loved it.

kyrra 9y ago
For ChromeOS / Pixelbook, keep an eye on Crostini as well[0][1][2]. It looks to allow running Ubuntu (or anything it seems) as a container in stock ChromeOS. Also looks like it may have gotten graphical support recently[3]. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelBook/comments/7zxz57/howto_boot_a_ubuntu_vm_using_crosvm/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelBook/comments/7zxz57/howto_boo... [1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm/ https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm... [2] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2/+/HEAD/vm_tools https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2/+/HEA... [3] https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelBook/comments/89oq8o/just_launched_xclock_on_my_pixelbook_so_happy_i/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelBook/comments/89oq8o/just_laun... EDIT: screenshot of Android Studio on a Pixelbook: https://imgur.com/a/vRU8l https://imgur.com/a/vRU8l
- sologoub 9y ago
  Your 3rd link is most relevant here as it shows Android Studio that OP stated is a must.
MrMorden 9y ago
The X1C with WQHD is awesome. It can even be reasonably priced if you buy at the right time (got my X1C5 over Black Friday weekend w/ the EPP code). It does require a bit of fiddling in Linux to get the display scaling right; some DEs will happily do 2x scale and everything's great, but 1.5x is more appropriate for 2560x1440.
- sologoub 9y ago
  On my work MBP, I just scale everything to smallest setting and enjoy the max screen real estate :) WQHD is awesome and the min that should be considered “professional” grade.

kyrra 9y ago

For ChromeOS / Pixelbook, keep an eye on Crostini as well[0][1][2]. It looks to allow running Ubuntu (or anything it seems) as a container in stock ChromeOS. Also looks like it may have gotten graphical support recently[3]. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelBook/comments/7zxz57/howto_boot_a_ubuntu_vm_using_crosvm/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelBook/comments/7zxz57/howto_boo... [1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm/ https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm... [2] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2/+/HEAD/vm_tools https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2/+/HEA... [3] https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelBook/comments/89oq8o/just_launched_xclock_on_my_pixelbook_so_happy_i/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelBook/comments/89oq8o/just_laun... EDIT: screenshot of Android Studio on a Pixelbook: https://imgur.com/a/vRU8l https://imgur.com/a/vRU8l

sologoub 9y ago
Your 3rd link is most relevant here as it shows Android Studio that OP stated is a must.

MrMorden 9y ago

The X1C with WQHD is awesome. It can even be reasonably priced if you buy at the right time (got my X1C5 over Black Friday weekend w/ the EPP code). It does require a bit of fiddling in Linux to get the display scaling right; some DEs will happily do 2x scale and everything's great, but 1.5x is more appropriate for 2560x1440.

sologoub 9y ago
On my work MBP, I just scale everything to smallest setting and enjoy the max screen real estate :) WQHD is awesome and the min that should be considered “professional” grade.