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I'm currently posting from a Dell Inspiron 3505 which has an 8-core AMD CPU and 6gb of ram. I got it new for roughly $300 and from quickly looking on ebay can b

I'm currently posting from a Dell Inspiron 3505 which has an 8-core AMD CPU and 6gb of ram. I got it new for roughly $300 and from quickly looking on ebay can be had for under $200 used. I'm waiting on the mail for a $70 Chromebook with 8gb of ram and a 2-core/4-thread CPU to replace this laptop because of a half-damaged charging port. I picked a Chromebook for the 10+ hour battery life, the same reason you chose a Macbook that costs 10x as much. I use a terminal text editor to write code and I use a web browser for everything else. If it wasn't for browsers being so bloated and desktop applications made with electron, I would be happy to settle with a laptop that had even just 4gb of ram.

scarface_74 2y ago
I couldn’t run any decent number of Docker containers on that and if I were doing Android development, the emulator would run like trash. Not to mention how many slow bloated Electron apps or Chrome itself runs on that. I definitely couldn’t do any serious development on a ChromeBook. But you said you care about an ad free experience and privacy and you are okay with hardware and an OS by Google????
- desumeku 2y ago
  If I just needed to run a suite of microservices in Docker containers on a Chromebook, I would have gotten one for $170 instead of $70. I'm not the person who posted about privacy - I consider chasing it a dead and fruitless end. Something will always be watching you. It's mere luck that preferring Linux happens to give me an environment that's mostly private by default except for anything involving the web browser.
- skydhash 2y ago
  I have 16GB of RAM on a 2019 Dell I bought for $140 on ebay and I rarely get past 6GB (mostly browsing and reading pdfs, and the rare WhatsApp tabs). It came with Windows 11 and it was a toaster for the one hour I bear with it. I'm not really keen on privacy, but I draw the line on waste and exploitation. My MBA is much more ergonomic and user friendly, but it's like being with an annoying roommate that insists on sleeping on the same bed and taking shower with you instead of having an appartment all by yourself

scarface_74 2y ago

I couldn’t run any decent number of Docker containers on that and if I were doing Android development, the emulator would run like trash. Not to mention how many slow bloated Electron apps or Chrome itself runs on that. I definitely couldn’t do any serious development on a ChromeBook. But you said you care about an ad free experience and privacy and you are okay with hardware and an OS by Google????

desumeku 2y ago
If I just needed to run a suite of microservices in Docker containers on a Chromebook, I would have gotten one for $170 instead of $70. I'm not the person who posted about privacy - I consider chasing it a dead and fruitless end. Something will always be watching you. It's mere luck that preferring Linux happens to give me an environment that's mostly private by default except for anything involving the web browser.
skydhash 2y ago
I have 16GB of RAM on a 2019 Dell I bought for $140 on ebay and I rarely get past 6GB (mostly browsing and reading pdfs, and the rare WhatsApp tabs). It came with Windows 11 and it was a toaster for the one hour I bear with it. I'm not really keen on privacy, but I draw the line on waste and exploitation. My MBA is much more ergonomic and user friendly, but it's like being with an annoying roommate that insists on sleeping on the same bed and taking shower with you instead of having an appartment all by yourself