Re:Ask HN: What's your primary development laptop?
by obstacle1 on Saturday March 12, 2016 @10:16PM
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>I can't think of any other explanation
Many people have their dev environments sitting on remote hardware and ssh in. Terminal sessions or an IDE aren't that resource-intensive, and that's all you need.
Re:Ask HN: What's your primary development laptop?
by Ologn on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @04:05PM
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Yes. My laptop is not on the lowest end of the scale, but over the past week my IDE has alternated between vi and emacs on my VPS as I edit Python scripts. I don't need a lot of local power to do that - years ago I was doing that type of thing from VT100 terminals.
Re:Ask HN: What's your primary development laptop?
by b_t_s on Friday March 18, 2016 @12:34PM
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You don't even have to offload the processing to a server unless you're working with a compiled language. Python/ruby/node/any other interpreted language plus PostgreSQL, plus a text editor like atom, plus a couple browser tabs should all run together just fine on a chomebook. I was comfortable running a setup like that 5 years ago a single core 1.6ghz atom netbook. Nowadays my cell phone probably has enough raw horsepower to run all that, compatibility issues aside.
Are these low-end machines being used as hobbyist or frontend-only web development? I can't think of any other explanation.
To answer the original question: Thinkpad X220. i7. Maxed out RAM. It's no portable workstation but I can push it just as hard without worrying about it overheating or failing.