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The advantages of programming on a small netbook

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Re: The advantages of programming on a small netbook

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Post by Legion »

toni wrote: post #56
ianso wrote: post #45

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Thanks for the info you guys, I didn't know this. At work I generally have 1-3 large workspaces open in the "Java Enterprise" version of Eclipse, hence my warped perspective, maybe...

Have you tried Yoxos Eclipse[1] flavor? You can build your own distribution from scratch and only include the packages you need. You can even save your choices and continue modifying them next time you login. I have a very pleasant experience using it and my builds are usually around 100-200 MB. [1] http://ondemand.yoxos.com/geteclipse/start

Hey, that's pretty neat. Thanks for sharing!

Re: The advantages of programming on a small netbook

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Post by lallysingh »

dagw wrote: post #12
tomh- wrote: post #9

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Indeed, if Netbeans is 'lightweight' then E texteditor or notepad++ must be hardware accelerated by a dedicated chip :D. Netbeans has to be one of the slowest and most resource consuming IDE's I ever used.

Even Eclipse is fast and responsive compared to Netbeans

A bit of scouring around and I found some configuration settings to speed up Netbeans's garbage collection & buffers. Made it pretty snappy on my mac. Now that's once it's loaded and I'm editing; other times can still be slow.

But it was a happy switch from Eclipse. Netbeans took longer to do things, but it didn't require that I try doing them 3-4 times before anything would happen (e.g. start/restart tomcat).

Re: The advantages of programming on a small netbook

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Post by leif »

SingAlong wrote: post #35
strebler wrote: post #28

"I can code in a crowded bar" Bars aren't for coding, put down the computer.

Well, I can code in my class using my netbook. Helps me skip lousy classes and still get attendance for those classes. I keep my netbook on my lap and I'm a first bencher and never got noticed coz of the bench design :) My specs: Acer Aspire One D150 (1gb/160gb) with Ubuntu 9.10 Emacs 23 for editing Switched to Chrome (5.0.379.dev) from FF, coz the new dom inspector seems to hook right at the bottom of the window lik…

I guarantee you've been noticed. Your professors just don't care. They are probably more jaded than you if the classes really are that bad.

Re: The advantages of programming on a small netbook

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Post by koenigdavidmj »

rubinelli wrote: post #34
ianso wrote: post #15

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Compared to Eclipse, it is :-)

A fully loaded Eclipse (or one of IBM's mammoth IDEs, no idea they call them now) can take 1GB, but the bare-bones Java profile is almost snappy.

PyDev is amazing as well. Admittedly, the machine upon which I'm running it has 16 GB of RAM, though.

Re: The advantages of programming on a small netbook

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Post by there »

jah wrote: post #41

Retort I had horrific problems with the keyboard on my 1st gen EEE PC, so make sure you get a chance to demo the netbook of your choice before blowing $400 bucks. The right shift key is terribly placed ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ASUS_Eee_PC_900_0010.JPG ) - you reach for shift and you end up hitting the up arrow. Sure you can remap the keys, but this design decision is indicative of the overall quality of th…

i had a keyboard problem with a dell mini 9, but it wasn't really about it being cramped: to use important keys like "\", "|", "-", "[" and "]", one had to press the fn key plus another.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/symmetricalism/3429329317/sizes...

luckily there was an international version of the same keyboard being used on other mini 9s, so i was able to order it from dell and install it on mine.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/symmetricalism/3465687431/in/se...

Re: The advantages of programming on a small netbook

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Post by rbanffy »

run4yourlives wrote: post #66
ianso wrote: post #15

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Compared to Eclipse, it is :-)

That's like comparing a destroyer to the USS Nimitz and calling it a small boat.

If I told my then colleagues at Engineering school I would have a multitasking, UNIX-based, RISC machine with 64 megs of RAM and 32 gigabytes of storage and a fast, full-time, connection to the internet in my back pocket I would be locked up in a loony bin. If I told them I would use it to listen to music, I would end up burned for witchcraft.

Even my humble netbook is a good couple hundred times more powerful than the my Apple II. I am quite sure it can accommodate NetBeans and Eclipse quite comfortably, apart from the screen real-estate limitations.

Re: The advantages of programming on a small netbook

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Post by prog »

chanux wrote: post #6

I too am using a netbook as my primary machine. Even though I do all the stuff I need to without much trouble, I have this feeling that I'm having a low end machine and this very feeling makes me write better code, use lightweight programs etc. somewhat off topic but I feel like saying this story too. When the game hitman 2 was out I had a machine with only the minimum requirements. So I always had very high stealth…

I was always curious about this. How are compile times for large projects?
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