Web developer at Greggs, UK with a proficiency in VueJS, Tailwind, and Storyblok, as well as other frameworks. I'm also passionate about web design, and mobile app development.
I love this comment. I'd never have considered this aspect as I'm so used to people settling with whatever they first encounter.
Also, how're you finding the Pixelbook? I'm yet to play with one myself. :D
I bought the Pixelbook as my laptop to "end all laptops" as it on paper has some pretty good specs, and ChromeOS. At the time I had a 200$ chromebook I was using for non-dev stuff, and an older laptop for dev work. I thought getting a Pixelbook would give me the best of both worlds.
For the most part it does allow me to use 1 laptop for both general web tasks, and developer but the CPU ends up being a bottleneck in some cases. Anytime I open a large repo, VSCode can get pretty slow, as it takes a while for all the code to be parsed.
Other than that the Pixelbook is everything I wanted, and then some. Its small, lightweight, powerful for anything the web throws at it, allows me to run Linux, and stupidly secure. It didn't end all laptops for me, but it does its job well enough as a mobile workstation.
PS. If you need an SSH/remote workstation where your laptop just connects to a more powerful server or machine, Chromebooks are one of the best options. I was able to dev on a 200$ machine using some cloud tools and SSH here and there. The Chromebook ends up being a "dumb terminal", just like the "olden days" haha.
Web developer at Greggs, UK with a proficiency in VueJS, Tailwind, and Storyblok, as well as other frameworks. I'm also passionate about web design, and mobile app development.
I love this comment. I'd never have considered this aspect as I'm so used to people settling with whatever they first encounter.
Also, how're you finding the Pixelbook? I'm yet to play with one myself. :D
I bought the Pixelbook as my laptop to "end all laptops" as it on paper has some pretty good specs, and ChromeOS. At the time I had a 200$ chromebook I was using for non-dev stuff, and an older laptop for dev work. I thought getting a Pixelbook would give me the best of both worlds.
For the most part it does allow me to use 1 laptop for both general web tasks, and developer but the CPU ends up being a bottleneck in some cases. Anytime I open a large repo, VSCode can get pretty slow, as it takes a while for all the code to be parsed.
Other than that the Pixelbook is everything I wanted, and then some. Its small, lightweight, powerful for anything the web throws at it, allows me to run Linux, and stupidly secure. It didn't end all laptops for me, but it does its job well enough as a mobile workstation.
PS. If you need an SSH/remote workstation where your laptop just connects to a more powerful server or machine, Chromebooks are one of the best options. I was able to dev on a 200$ machine using some cloud tools and SSH here and there. The Chromebook ends up being a "dumb terminal", just like the "olden days" haha.
"a $200 dumb terminal" Amazing 😂