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Re:The Mac keeps growing in shipments while PC shipments are... by thehappypm on Monday October 10, 2022 @01:06PM (#33153885)
If you’re trying to run apps at all, youre probably gonna have a bad time with a Chromebook. If youre mostly doing light stuff like email and video chatting it has been surprisingly effective for me.
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Re:The Mac keeps growing in shipments while PC shipments are... by NayamAmarshe on Monday October 10, 2022 @04:12PM (#33155910)
Yeah I get that, you can probably watch YouTube and attend online meetings but I'm always kinda skeptical of people recommending it as a productivity device or a laptop that can be used for programming.

The RAM alone isn't enough to run production grade servers as it would either take an eternity to run or just crash with an out of memory error. Running VSCode and a browser is more than enough to occupy most of the RAM on mine.

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Re:The Mac keeps growing in shipments while PC shipments are... by thehappypm on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:29PM (#33159206)
I don’t write much code, but there are engineers who do, and they do some kind of remote server based development which works with the Chromebook
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