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Surprised you get downvoted for this comment... I've an insanely powerful (and expensive) laptop from work. But looking back, most of the work I'm actually pro

Surprised you get downvoted for this comment... I've an insanely powerful (and expensive) laptop from work. But looking back, most of the work I'm actually proud of was done in really cheap laptops. Maybe success is more about being comfortable with the tool you have than having the most expensive tool??

rbanffy 4y ago
It was a 600x1024 netbook screen that persuaded me to re-learn Emacs. Of course I'd prefer a ridiculously fast computer, with a fast CPU with dozens of cores, an insane amount of memory (not swapping is kind of important with SSDs) and a very fast SSD, but, in the end, I don't need that much of a computer. Would I turn down a 4th-gen Xeon or EPYC Genoa workstation if someone offered me one for free? Of course not! In fact, I like retro computing and I wouldn't turn down a TRS-80 (and, in fact, would be delighted to give a home to a VT-230/330 terminal or an ASR-33 teletype).