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Dendrophobe  ·  3828 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: $149 Chromebooks: More Chromebooks, for everyone

You can wipe them and run Ubuntu - I know people who have done that and are quite happy with the result. That'll take care of the web software issue, but not the storage.





mk  ·  3827 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I thought that was possible, but barely. If it isn't too finicky, I am absolutely getting one of these. It'd be perfect for a laptop dedicated to working on the site.

Dendrophobe  ·  3827 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Would you really want to work on the site on such a small screen? I know I have a hard time coding without a fairly large monitor.

mk  ·  3827 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My current coffeeshop device is a Lenovo U260 which has a 12.5" screen.

ASUS and Toshiba have 13.3" Chromebooks that go for $250. That would feel like a step up.

I am not a very typical coder. I edit in WordPad. I've tried editors, and I keep falling back to WordPad. Someday I should hack Sublime Text until it is nothing more than a WordPad that counts parentheses.

tacocat  ·  3828 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Funny. I put Linux Mint on the Dell. I'm not sure if my issues now are hardware or software. Both honestly