Re:Data science on a chromebook
by blueblob on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @12:57PM
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At $20/mo in DigitalOcean services that are only required if you're running on a chromebook, why not just run on an inexpensive PC? It's seemingly long-term more expensive to do it this way.
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From the article: "One of the best parts about the fully cloudy/Chrome OS requirement is this means that from the user perspective everything is always in sync. I log off the computer at home, come to work, log on and its like I’m on the same computer." So using a single computer wouldn't provide that, unless you took it with you which the author would apparently prefer not to do.
Re:Data science on a chromebook
by neuronexmachina on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @01:22PM
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A few reasons come to mind: battery life, portability, and being able to easily upscale/downscale.