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I agree, except I haven’t found a ChromeBook I’ve liked. For $900, you can buy an M1 MacBook Air. It is the sexiest dumb terminal I’ve ever used. I had used
by jnwatson 5y ago
I agree, except I haven’t found a ChromeBook I’ve liked.
For $900, you can buy an M1 MacBook Air. It is the sexiest dumb terminal I’ve ever used.
I had used Linux on a laptop for about 15 years prior. It is a fine 90% solution.
The Air is barely the same class of device: no noise, almost instant-on, battery lasts forever.
- avel 5y agoI was indifferent to chromebooks, until the Lenovo Ideapad Duet 5 (13.3"). Very cool machine.
- trenchgun 5y agoAgreed with M1 MacBook Air.
- ramesh31 5y ago>For $900, you can buy an M1 MacBook Air. It is the sexiest dumb terminal I’ve ever used. There's something ironic and wonderful about a laptop with more processing power than an i7 desktop being called a dumb terminal.
- lhl 5y agoModern Macs are fine as terminals I suppose, unless you travel a lot or are on metered Internet. If so, then you have a lot of stuff to turn off. See: https://gist.github.com/mmillar-bolis/dcfb3d1814fb0532eb3c71a7106c17e6 https://gist.github.com/mmillar-bolis/dcfb3d1814fb0532eb3c71... https://github.com/keithbarrett/Mac/blob/master/DisableMacServices.sh https://github.com/keithbarrett/Mac/blob/master/DisableMacSe... https://gist.github.com/b0gdanw/40d000342dd1ba4d892ad0bdf03ae6ea https://gist.github.com/b0gdanw/40d000342dd1ba4d892ad0bdf03a... I haven't used a Mac full-time for years, but the straw that broke the camels back for me was when I was traveling through multiple countries (including in New Zealand and on flights) and I could not get my damn Mac to stop sucking down, well, whatever it was doing. The number of default services running seems to have gotten even worse since then by the looks of these scripts...