[Arm-netbook] new development laptop needed, looking at dell xps 13 9350

[Adam Van Ymeren]

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Julie Marchant <onpon4 at riseup.net> wrote:
> Just my 2 cents:
>
> From what I've been gathering, Luke, this is the situation: you are used
> to a very high spec setup capable of really large amounts of
> multitasking and don't want to give up your current way of doing things,
> so you are looking for a new laptop capable of this. There's nothing
> wrong with that if you can find it. But maybe it would be worthwhile to
> adjust your workflow so that it doesn't need an ultra-HD screen and
> 16GB+ of RAM? There must be some way you can achieve that.
>
> These are the thoughts I have, in particular:
>
> * From what I understand, you use a DE that basically tiles all of the
> programs you have open into whatever screen space you have, right? Have
> you ever tried GNOME? That might be a good replacement for that if you
> can get used to it.
>
> * Is it really necessary to have all of those programs open at the same
> time?
>
> * Is it really necessary to use Chrome or Firefox? There are more
> lightweight browsers out there, including text-based ones like elinks.
> Disabling JavaScript can also help a lot with performance in general.
>
> * What if you had one laptop for openscad and other heavy or important
> stuff, and another, cheaper laptop for Web browsing and other stuff like
> that?
>
> * I'm wondering about that SSD. Are hard drive speeds really so bad that
> you need one? Big SSDs are much more expensive than big hard drives. My
> experience with a hard drive is that it's mostly start-up times that are
> affected, so what I tend to do is log in and then go do something else
> while everything loads, and then use the suspend to RAM feature if I
> need to conserve battery for a short period of time.
>
> I'd also like to point out that learning to live with less than you're
> used to would be really good for your public image, since after all, the
> hardware you'll be selling for quite some time is nowhere near those
> capabilities. ;) As it is now, for example, if someone says that what
> you're selling isn't good enough, they have you as an example to back
> that claim up. But if you manage to reduce your needs and eventually
> meet what EOMA hardware can achieve, then you would have your own
> example to refute that, and you would even have experience that you
> could use to advise people on what sorts of changes to make to the way
> they do things. Food for thought.

The real solution is to get EOMA-200 rolling with 32GB of RAM :).

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