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He's also apparently assuming that ARM-based Chromebooks will never be a useful developer environment. I wouldn't take that bet -- a lot of the newer ones will
by rst 8y ago
He's also apparently assuming that ARM-based Chromebooks will never be a useful developer environment. I wouldn't take that bet -- a lot of the newer ones will support Linux VMs out of the box well enough to support at least a half-decent development environment (via Crostini). (You can get a Pixelbook with 8GB RAM and a 512GB SSD, if you're wondering about storage space. And while Crostini still has issues with in-VM driver support for things like the Chromebook's own audio and camera, that's stuff that server software wouldn't use much anyway.)
Between that and the much-rumored ARM Macs, this could turn pretty quickly...
- bryanlarsen 8y agoI don't think he's assuming any such thing. His argument is simply that ARM can't win until it has a reasonable dev box. He makes no speculation about if/when such a box is coming.
- tbyehl 8y agoPixelbook is i5 / i7 tho. I have an Acer R13 w/ MediaTek ARM SoC. It's alright, better than the comparables with Intel N-series CPUs, but it ain't no i5.
- softshellack 8y agoPixelbook is not ARM. There are lesser-powered, arm-based, crostini-enabled chromebooks. But nothing a developer would want to use yet.