DEV Community

SimonaModica
SimonaModica

Posted on

Chromebooks VS Dev I am asking for suggestions

Hello, I don't know but I hope my tags are correct. I found this community looking for an answer on Chromebooks for developing, but those don't seems to be good enough for me.
I know barely nothing about this world, I don't know which are the suggested hardware specifics to develop. If there's a best OS to have, but my big concern is that all the answers I found untill now are too expensive. I don't have 1000€ or more to spend, I barely could soon have 250/300€ to start my journey, so I was wondering if a Chromebook (surely cheaper than other laptops) could be good for this. Otherwise, Can you suggest some hardware specifics that could help me looking for a reconditioned desktop pc? Even if I am more for Chromebook because I portable and my back could thank me right now.
Thank you all! And sorry if I am a bit confused.

P.S. if you are going to talk to me about languages or technical language I can't understand you, I just began studying HTML and that's all I know.

Latest comments (3)

Collapse
 
nestedsoftware profile image
Nested Software

I don't know a great deal about this, but one thing to consider is using a cloud-based development environment such as aws cloud9. That way you can have a not super beefy computer and you only need to load the development environment in your browser. You don't have to worry about the additional performance requirements of running build tools, database servers, etc.

Collapse
 
simonamodica profile image
SimonaModica

Thank you so much! I think I'll go look for it.

Some comments may only be visible to logged-in visitors. Sign in to view all comments.