Did the same for my freshman year of Uni on a $99 Chromebook. Java and C dev on 4GB of ram wasn't an issue.
replyThat said, I quickly upgraded to a 4 year used Thinkpad and that was a huge difference.
C dev wasn't an issue back in the 1 GB or 256 MB or 16 MB days either. You just didn't use to have a Chrome tab open that by itself is eating 345 MB just to show a simple tutorial page.
replyC dev wasn't a problem with MSDOS and 640K either. With CP/M and 64K it was a challenge I think. Struggling to remember the details on that and too lazy to research it right now.
replyThe problem is like all Apple stuff it's just needlessly limiting and has few advantages over alternatives.
reply> $200 Chromebook chrooted into Debian
replyAre there even any x86 Chromebooks left at that price point? They are only one that are still capable of chrooting into Linux. ARM Chromebooks remain locked up.
Looking at BestBuy, category chromebook, the first one that comes up is $150, intel n4500.
replyI don't know if this is particularly current or what, or if it's easy to setup to run another OS or whatever, but it meets your price and architecture criteria.
https://www.bestbuy.com/product/hp-14-chromebook-intel-celer...
ARM chromebooks run the Debian containers just fine. It's just at settings toggle to enable it and you don't even need dev mode.
replyThere were a bunch of intel atom ones IIRC. I got my degree with a used EEEpc with one of those.
replyAs did I. The most unbelievable part is that we used that tiny keyboard.
replyEEEPc ? Oh, I used to dream of having an EEEPc ... I got my degree using old C64 - had to manually encrypt packets with pen and paper to use https.
replyI mean, never mind younger us. I have a M5 MBP and even I am tempted for a Neo for travelling
replyThere is truly no space in my device repertoire for a Neo and I can say that with confidence because of how much time I've spent trying to find one.
reply"Finding Neo"
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