Google Announces $1,299 Chromebook Pixel With 2560×1700px Touchscreen

Re:Google Announces $1,299 Chromebook Pixel With 2560×1700px... by jussij on Thursday February 21, 2013 @05:18PM (#5260894)

> There is also nothing stopping you from porting your favorite development tools to NaCl.

Writing the code is only half the story. You also need to test that code and that means running the code on a target machine similar to your customer.

So unless you customer is also using a Chromebook this is going to make the testing much harder.

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Re:Google Announces $1,299 Chromebook Pixel With 2560×1700px... by dragonwriter on Thursday February 21, 2013 @06:09PM (#5261255)

> Writing the code is only half the story. You also need to test that code and that means running the code on a target machine similar to your customer.

Right. And unless you are writing desktop software, that most likely means running it on a commodity physical or virtual servers, which aren't going to be your dev workstation.

For user-facing web software (as opposed to pure web services), ideal UI testing means having a wide variety of hardware/OS/browser combinations available for testing, but none of that needs to be your development workstation, either.

So neither of thos are strokes against using a Chromebook for development.

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