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by hospitalJail
1074 days ago
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>it's better to allocate money to build quality, battery life, lower weight or even keyboard feeling. I'm sure you are coming from something well intentioned, but those are specs as well. Not that I think they are worthwhile paying for, but these are still specs. >Most of the software guys need "just enough" CPU power and close to zero GPU power on their laptop. But if that was the case, I have a $100 craigslist laptop that has windows 7 on it from a long time ago. Heck, its good enough my kid can play minecraft on it, I'm sure it can SSH. Seems like people really do want something nice, or they are okay with barebones. Somehow these low power CPUs are capturing a market that is overpaying or getting lower spec/$. |
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Well, sure, for weight. The other three I just can't tell until I try the thing for a week, it isn't spec if you can't tell anything after reading the spec.
> I'm sure it can SSH.
"just enough" means running a web browser, an IDE with a few background indexers for the code base I'm working on. That's a little bit too much for the $100 craigslist laptop, but yeah you are right, a $200 Chromebook works totally fine, except it had poor screen, poor keyboard and poor storage options. Want to know why I buy laptops with low power CPUs? They come with premium non-CPU parts and is both lighter and cheaper than ones with better CPUs.
Like, it's easy, anything >1.2kg is trash for me (which is equally arbitrary as your "non-low-power" constraint). Can you find me a nice <= 1.2kg laptop with so-called "non-low-power" CPUs? If so I'd be glad to try it, as it means maybe I can replace my laptop after 10 years instead of 5.