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An alternative pattern is to have a super light moderately powerful laptop, then SSH into a more powerful box when you need it. This way your lap doesn't get h
by shocks 8y ago
An alternative pattern is to have a super light moderately powerful laptop, then SSH into a more powerful box when you need it.
This way your lap doesn't get hot and your battery doesn't drain. Plus, you don't have to carry around a paving slab.
- chx 8y agoYup! My ThinkPad 25 might not be super light but this side of 2011 it's the only seven row layout so it'll do and it's 3.5-3.9lbs depending which battery I take with me. I have a server rented at Hetzner which few laptops could match and none you want to haul around if you don't drive.
- cobbzilla 8y agoI did that for years with great success. But it does depend on the nature of the work; for the past year or so I've been needing to run multiple VirtualBox VMs, a heavyweight IDE, and other memory-hungry desktop apps. Cloud servers aren't great for interactive work like developing/debugging in an IDE or running a VM of a graphical OS (windows). I still use remote servers when I need real CPU/memory horsepower.