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I've been excited about this ever since they announced it a year ago, the thought of having "just a phone" instead of a phone, laptop and tablet is so awesome i
by benologist 14y ago
I've been excited about this ever since they announced it a year ago, the thought of having "just a phone" instead of a phone, laptop and tablet is so awesome it's going to outclass everything.
The one thing I'm afraid of is how resource-intensive certain classes of software are. I tried a netbook over a year ago and wouldn't want that kind of performance except in emergencies, even today every single IDE I run is a slow piece of crap on last year's maxed out macbook air.
- ownagefool 14y agoIts a nice idea but you're still going to need to put the money down for the specialist docking stations to turn this a laptop, tablet or a desktop, and you'll probably be stuck with the processing power and more importantly the IO of your phone for all of them. I'm not sure the reality will turn out as good as the idea, at least not for several years yet. That'll give Canonical time to catch up to Microsoft, the latter of which isn't really popular because they've shown how easy it is to botch the idea.
- TallGuyShort 14y agoIf the resource requirements of your IDE are out-pacing high-end hardware manufacturing, it sounds like you need a different IDE.
- fierarul 14y agoMy ideal IDE should need a whole datacenter and use AI to help me work better. If your IDE isn't using your whole hardware, it's probably not doing enough.
- bigdubs 14y agoSome IDE's are just better at doing similar things than others. VS2k10 intellisense is orders of magnitude faster/stable/* than implementations in other IDE's.
- ffk 14y agoHave you tried emacs? ;)
- ffk 14y agoIn all seriousness though, I do agree with this with the exception that the IDE needs to make room for the application you're writing. If it can use an extra core to provide smarter autocompletion or discover potential bugs, I'm all for it.
- benologist 14y agoI agree completely but I use most of the popular ones so I'm starting to suspect what I really need is a better IDE!
- TylerE 14y agoLet me tell you a little story. I spent the long NYE weekend in Washington, DC. On Friday night, my phone was stolen. This was, obviously, rather painful and distressing, not to mention inconvenient (being alone in the middle of a city I don't know very well, suddenly cut off from maps, yelp, wiki, etc. Luckily, back at the hotel I had my laptop, from which I was able to remote wipe my phone, get contact info for my carrier to get service shut-off, and file an insurance claim to get a replacement phone. The moral of this story: Beware of excessive convergence, and always have a Plan B.
- benologist 14y agoPlan B is to make your profile independent of your hardware and just get a replacement, same thing I had to do when my laptop was stolen and smartphones were even dumber than me for letting my laptop get stolen. :(
- gte910h 14y agoOT: Do you by any chance run Xcode on the MBA? 11 or 13? I'm debating a yearly/bi yearly replaecment of a MBA instead of a bi yearly/triyearly replacement of the maxed out top of the line MBP. How much is this going to hurt with two ACDs plugged into it?