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> two windows of chrome, 20 tabs each, 5 or 6 instances of PHPStorm open Jesus Christ, that sounds excessive. Vim can be run well off of a $35 Raspberry Pie i
by adamors 13y ago
> two windows of chrome, 20 tabs each, 5 or 6 instances of PHPStorm open
Jesus Christ, that sounds excessive.
Vim can be run well off of a $35 Raspberry Pie if that means anything to you. That machine has 512 MB of RAM. Basically every laptop will be able to handle it just fine.
- atmosx 13y agoTheoretically yes, practically it will be slow, but it's no the CPU/RAM it's the SD card (poor I/O speed) that slows down VIM on embedded devices. You have to disable swapping, you could load your current working dir to RAM and them write a script to save the data elsewhere but that's dangerous for production. So the best device to run vim IMHO it's still a top-notch SSD-based laptop. A chromebook (intel-based to avoid other sort of issues) would be a better bet.
- DennisP 13y agoYep, works just fine on my $200 Acer chromebook.