Re:$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft
by ChristianGeek on Saturday September 01, 2018 @04:24PM
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I cannot express enough love for the TrackPoint keyboard! (I use an external one at home and at the office.)
Re:$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft
by binmanthrowaway on Saturday September 01, 2018 @05:45PM
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Can't see 4k screen. Come on it is 2018 I don't want to see pixels.
Re:$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft
by krn on Saturday September 01, 2018 @06:01PM
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This is a budget ThinkPad model, design for small businesses, where 4k display would be an overkill. I actually find FHD to be a better option for a development machine, because of the lower energy consumption and extended battery life.
Re:$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft
by binmanthrowaway on Sunday September 02, 2018 @08:30AM
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It is like preferring dried beans over a calculator to do sums...
GalliumOS[1] is a Ubuntu-based Linux distribution optimized for Chromebooks with a huge list of supported devices[2].
> Right now, Xiaomi laptops are excellent cheap machines to run Linux on (thanks to having just Intel components). Same for Huawei if you are willing to spend a bit more, but on that price a Thinkpad is probably the way to go.
I find Lenovo Thinkpad E4*0 series to be the best low-cost, high build-quality Linux development machines, since they start from $569.99, allow a wide range of hardware customizations[3], and meet Mil-SPEC durability standards[4].
[1] https://galliumos.org/
[2] https://wiki.galliumos.org/Hardware_Compatibility
[3] https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-e-ser...
[4] https://www.lenovo.com/hk/en/thisisthinkpad/innovation/think...