[pjmlp]

Paying top dollars/euros for a laptop with 8GB/128GB isn't my idea of an ideal developer laptop.

[Teckla]

8GB/128GB goes a lot further on a Chromebook than it does on creaky, old, slow, bloated Windows. And Chromebook prices are very good.

I recently got a Chromebook and I'm amazed at how snappy and fast it is. And its built in Linux is amazing.

[Dylan16807]

If you say so. I'm on windows and most of my memory is going to chrome and firefox.

I've had some pretty severe issues with a chromebook running out of memory because the devs decided swap wasn't allowed (and I could never get the kernel to build and install properly). The builtin chrome definitely doesn't stop single websites from using most of a gigabyte of RAM.

[pjmlp]

Nope, not good at all, and my Asus 1215B proves otherwise.

300 euro from 2009, upgraded with 8GB and 1TB SSD, and with native graphics that beat WebGL 2.0, running latest Xubuntu.

[omnifischer]

if one is already a geek it is not needed. The only reason myself being a geek moved to chromeos

- no need to worry if upgrading some Xorg will kill Xserver. Yes, it does happen if one has autoupdates

- Will my zoom/camera/mic work after I make pulseaudio->pipewire-><whatever latest>? No idea but chromeos - just works

- There are software engineers that have no installation/hardware/sysadmin experience (or they dont want to learn).

- Just close and open device. Chromeos is instant. (yes, one can fiddle with pm-utils to get modules (un)loaded - no life is too short to fix these.

- Many programs like netflix need some form of terrible DRM and dont work with linux. Some people still need to live with DRM.

[pjmlp]

I thought we were discussing about ChromeOS for developers after all.

> ChromeOS got good and is wildly underrated for software development.

There are laptops sold with Linux support in mind, those Asus netbooks were such laptops.

As for DRM, just install Chrome, the Web nowadays is ChromeOS anyway.

[THENATHE]

There is a new version you can get directly from Google that works on quite a few devices, especially high end ones.

[catlover76]

You don't pay top price for Chromebooks; you can get a good one for in between 200 and 300 USD

[pjmlp]

Not in Europe, so top euro if you prefer, and still with a junk hardware configuration.

[catlover76]

Oh interesting; given USD and Euro relative parity nowadays, I assumed they would be 200-300 Euro as well