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if you are looking at Macs, mac book air. Chromebook is a fantastic option in terms of price, though everything may have to stay in the cloud.
by sairamkunala 7y ago
if you are looking at Macs, mac book air.
Chromebook is a fantastic option in terms of price, though everything may have to stay in the cloud.
- abude 7y agomacbook air, is no good for programming. sketching and frontend things yes, but when you start running environments within it like docker for example. it will crash.
- kall 7y agoIf you spec it out to about 2000$, with the i7 upgrade, 16 GB of RAM, 1TB SSD, I'm pretty sure it will be plenty powerful for the majority of developers. Probably as good as the 5 year old MacBook Pro everyone still uses. Bonus: you get a function key row
- raverbashing 7y agoYou don't need to run docker for every single thing
- sgt 7y agoYes, you don't need Docker for the development environment. I do that sometimes though for convenience and for projects that I develop on only now and then.
- ben_w 7y agoThe use-case is “quickly write tiny JS/PHP/Html programs”. I do that on my Air. I have never used docker and don’t really know what docker is besides a tech-de-jour.
- antigirl 7y agoJS means using npm and node, ive heard my laptop fans go crazy at times. I'm MBP 13 inch, i7, SSD, 16GB Ram
- sgt 7y agoThat's not really true though, and I know this from personal experience in the company that I work for. We have a fairly large development team all using MacBook Air, the previous version. It's a little workhorse, but you gotta know its limitations. It struggles a little with Java development (i.e. running NetBeans or IntelliJ), but the new version (i.e. 2019 model) will do that just fine.
- fredsted 7y agoDepends on the environment. You can easily run Docker containers on the new Air.
- steeleduncan 7y agoI've not tried it, but I think you can install Ubuntu within a container on a Chromebook[1] without jailbreaking or removing ChromeOS. [1] https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-ubuntu-on-chromebook https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-ubuntu-on-chromebook
- agloeregrets 7y agoNo it’s even easier and better than that. There is a built in Linux container internally called crostini, you just turn it on and it’s a fully featured Linux install with admin privileges and a terminal.
- throwanem 7y agoYou can repave a lot of Chromebooks with Linux, and should, if you're using one as a dev machine.
- rbanffy 7y agoThe lack of one modifier key left of the keyboard is an issue to me. Equivalent Windows laptops cost about the same and have an extra key. And can run Linux just fine.
- throwanem 7y agoCaps Lock is useless. Map it to Control and the search key to Super, and you have all the modifiers you need, and in a more comfortable configuration besides.