Ask HN: Cheap laptop for Rails web development?

Posted by garbles on Friday June 22, 2012 @07:22PM
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Recently I've found that working on projects from home on my desktop is just killing my productivity.

I'm looking for a laptop competent enough to do Rails, but not much past that - I don't need to be able to watch HD video or anything. Something that will be compatible with Ubuntu.

I've read that you can request a refund from Microsoft if you buy a laptop with Windows 7 and decide not to use it. Is that true?

I'm looking at spending under $400. Any recommendations?

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap laptop for Rails web development? by patio11 on Friday June 22, 2012 @07:38PM (#4149470)

Do two days of Rails freelancing from your desktop then buy a machine with:

An SSD drive

8 GB of RAM+

Your productivity will thank me later, particularly if like most Rails programmers following the happy path you decide to run unit tests virtually continuously.

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