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

[mike.valk at gmail.com]

2016-12-05 13:55 GMT+01:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>:

> On 12/5/16, mike.valk at gmail.com <mike.valk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2016-12-05 11:55 GMT+01:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>:
> > How about using a lighter/smaller laptop and a "mini" desktop as a
> server,
> > SSH/VNC. Like an Intel NUC
>
>  nice idea... can't do it.  remember, i would have to carry the mini
> desktop as a server, plus its power supply, plus network cables, in my
> backpack, setting it up at the factory, or at a client, or at a hotel,
> or a supplier, every single time.
>
>  plus, openscad, which is heavy on the 3D OpenGL side, simply wouldn't
> work over X11
>

1. Cables; Buy a beefier adapter and fit it with two ends, one for the
laptop and one for the desktop. Might not work for Dell etc beacause of
their 1-wire protocol [1]. Use wireless between the laptop and desktop.
They're close together. Most Wifi cards can do AP and Client simultaneously
sap laptop in dual mode and desktop in client. But bring a cable just in
case...

2. Remte access; Don't do X11, do VNC or RDP. Or use a hdmi/dvi grabber. If
you need X11 use SSH compression. Works wonders!. I'm used to narrow lines
and old Unix systems and SSH compression saves the day. Most cpu's even
have compression processors to do the heavy lifting.

It's a little more work to set up but more versatile and replaceable. Most
32GiB Laptops are huge, heavy and expensive and drain a lot of battery
fast. I gather from your response CPU is not the issue RAM is. Those
"Mobile workstations" have consuming but faster CPU's.

This setup allows you to run browsers/presentations on your laptop and your
workflow on the desktop. Gaining extra RAM! Laptop+Deskop.

But do what you feel is best and give you the most productive environment.

This is bootstrapping the EOMA. You don't produce cars with cars. Those are
produced with factories and trucks etc. This laptop is your factory.

To bad most software doesn't scale out and run on ARM ABI's. Then a cluster
of EOMA's could do the trick ;-)

[1]
http://hackaday.com/2014/03/03/hacking-dell-laptop-charger-identification/
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