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6 HN users recommended this between 2012 and 2017, in 6 comments.
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6 HN users recommended this between 2012 and 2017, in 6 comments.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
The model number is XE303C12 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009LL9VDG/
It's working now: http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-XE303C12-A01US-Chromebook-Wi-F...
Thanks. It redirected me to http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009LL9VDG, which just offered to take my email address when it is available. I thought pre-order meant I'd pay for it. lol
>Let's remember that this machine is $50 cheaper than the vaporware Samsung ARM ChromeBook.
In what way is the Samsung ARM ChromeBook "vaporware"? It seems to be available: http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-XE303C12-A01US-Chromebook-Wi-F...
I'm pleasantly surprised to hear you can run KiCAD on a chromebook. I have one (https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Chromebook-Wi-Fi-11-6-Inch-Mo...) with some tiny processor and it crashed yesterday with a single tab open. I'll have to try out your setup!
This was my setup for some time:
Chromebook https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Chromebook-Wi-Fi-11-6-Inch-Mo...
Secure Shell https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec...
DigitalOcean $5 droplet https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
Free GitHub account (swapped back and forth between bitbucket)
For editing, I just became really good at vim. Then, if I was feeling froggy:
https://c9.io/, the free tier if needed.
So in the end, there was the initial cost $212 for the lappy (it's really small and lightweight too, great lappy), then a $5 recurring charge for the droplet that I would tunnel and own projects from there.
If you do think this path will be advantages, just be careful, get a simple DNS (hover.com) record too, things change you might want to move to a different provider.
Total Upfront cost: $222 + $5 + $20 doe DNS. Then recurring monthly is $5. The recurring yearly $20 for DNS. The first Year you are looking at $55, not including the upfront cost. Then the second year and going forward you are $60/yr and $20/y
The super nice part of all of this. you can destroy your environment with a vengeance, then start up a new droplet and things will be back to normal
This lappy did its job and is retirement with the significant other doing bills and looking at Facebook. Somedays I still wonder if that lappy misses the days of writing code till late in the morning on the back and only having to run the charger cable once. I would like to think it does.
My personal note, stay out of the cool guy editors at first. Use a minimal setup until you know exactly what you will be working on.