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Few developers are in the $200 laptop segment
by jhatemyjob 6y ago
Few developers are in the $200 laptop segment
- pjmlp 6y agoDepends pretty much on which country we are talking about.
- rbanffy 6y agoAnd which stack. Unless I am doing something very wrong (and sometimes I do), most of my Python development flows fit very comfortably on a 4GB Celeron laptop (that's currently with my 8yo daughter). If they can't perform decently on this, I need to fix it.
- worik 6y ago4GB is a lot of memory. A lot.
- jhatemyjob 6y agoThe ones that matter. United States, Canada, UK, Sweden, Japan, Australia, etc.
- rbanffy 6y agoI live in Ireland and I really enjoy that small Celeron I mentioned in the other message - the one my daughter is using. It's small, the battery lasts for at least 5 hours, completely silent, and, while it certainly isn't as fast as my Mac or the Dell (or the Xeon under my desk), it's fast enough for my tests to run while I think about the next steps. And it did cost me about $200. It's an expendable computer. I assume a Pinebook Pro is a much nicer experience.
- jhatemyjob 6y agoBy your own admission, you own 3 high-end laptops and one low-end one (which you don't even use). Enough said.
- pjmlp 6y agoThey won't matter for long if they only target internal markets.
- rbanffy 6y agoWhich is kind of a shame - most of what I do on my corporate 8-core MBP could be comfortably done on a much lighter specced machine. The only time I see the fans spinning up is when running Zoom. And updating IntelliJ.