Linux on Chromebooks just might get me through a masters in computer science

Re:Linux on Chromebooks just might get me through a masters ... by esalman on Sunday June 13, 2021 @11:11PM (#27498887)

I agree. In fact if I chose a chromebook, I'd automatically restrict the budget to $250 max even for a brand new one. For $950 or more, I wouldn't accept anything less than a performance laptop with a discrete GPU.

So the question is, can you get through the Master's program with a brand new $250 chromeook? I'd say yes- you basically need to set it up as a remote coding machine. Georgia Tech (and most other universities with decent graduate programs) provide access to educational and research computing clusters these days. Also, Google Collab is your friend, especially during the assignment deadlines when those clusters will be occupied by other students.

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Re:Linux on Chromebooks just might get me through a masters ... by MonaroVXR on Monday June 14, 2021 @02:34AM (#27499882)

>I agree. In fact if I chose a chromebook, I'd automatically restrict the budget to $250 max even for a brand new one. For $950 or more, I wouldn't accept anything less than a performance laptop with a discrete GPU.

A laptop with a DGPU within that price range is mostly a NVIDIA MX-series GPU.

But you can get a good NVIDIA GPU with the Acer Nitro 5 (from 2020 and upwards) series and maybe an Ideapad gaming.

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