Ask HN: What's the best laptop for development now?

Re:Ask HN: What's the best laptop for development now? by rajeshmr on Friday June 16, 2017 @03:02AM (#14567131)

I am gonna be a bit off-course and say, whichever laptop you have could be the best if you play to its strengths.

I used Asus x205ta laptop and it still is one of my best investments. Elsewhere on HN, i have mentioned that i setup vagrant and used the machine to its best. All i cared was to have a browser and a terminal. :)

EDIT : Asus x205ta is a $199-ish netbook.. with an atom processor and 2gb ram, 11-inch screen.

Currently i use an MBA (2015) model.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best laptop for development now? by DanBC on Friday June 16, 2017 @06:25AM (#14567787)

Installing Linux on the ASUS x205ta is unfun.

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2254322

The 2 GB of ram is suboptimal for 64 bit OSs, and the 32 bit EUFI means bootloaders are not straightforward.

Windows 10 is much better for this machine than Windows 8 because of the move away from WIMBoot to CompactOS. Upgrading from 8 to 10 requires at least X (I forget how many) free gigabytes, which may require removal of a bunch of software before updating.

It sounds like I hate the machine, but I don't, it's a very nice tiny cheap little netbook.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best laptop for development now? by rajeshmr on Friday June 16, 2017 @09:46AM (#14568874)

Actually I didn't care to install Linux ;) I used vagrant and installed Ubuntu on top of it.. used putty to ssh into the VM and for all Linux things. Browser for all internet things. Solved my use case :) a browser and a terminal for dev!

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