Chromebook Plus: more performance and AI capabilities

Re:Chromebook Plus: more performance and AI capabilities by davidw on Monday October 02, 2023 @10:03AM (#37738288)

I've been quite pleasantly surprised by the $250 Chromebook I got from Costco nearly a year ago when my Linux machine's hardware started failing. I originally got it because it was the quickest way to have something for writing emails that wasn't my phone. I ended up quite happy with it though.

It does everything I need outside of heavier duty programming, and I don't do so much of that in my spare time these days. You can code with it; I set up a for-fun Elixir/Phoenix project that I coded mostly on the Chromebook.

I do a lot of writing/communicating and I don't need anything more than what this computer provides.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Chromebook Plus: more performance and AI capabilities by jvanvleet on Monday October 02, 2023 @12:34PM (#37740589)

This is fairly close to my revelation as well. I don't run "heavier duty programming" as OP says local anyhow. VSCode runs wonderfully, battery lasts forever and I run anything beyond trivial in some cloud instance. They are so light, the battery lasts so long and they are so cheap mine just bounces around in my backpack and is always with me.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Chromebook Plus: more performance and AI capabilities by hot_gril on Monday October 02, 2023 @06:24PM (#37745260)

Would a local nodejs webserver be easily doable for web dev? It's sorta ok on the cloud as long as you can SSH tunnel and run the browser locally, but you'd have to either sync code changes or use Vim over SSH (not always nice due to latency).

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Chromebook Plus: more performance and AI capabilities by rnk on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @03:14AM (#37748795)

Yes, people do that kind of thing.

[ Parent | on HN ]