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if you are looking at Macs, mac book air. Chromebook is a fantastic option in terms of price, though everything may have to stay in the cloud.
You can repave a lot of Chromebooks with Linux, and should, if you're using one as a dev machine.
And can run Linux just fine.
Surface Go is an option to consider, however it can't really be used on a lap.
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macbook air, is no good for programming. sketching and frontend things yes, but when you start running environments within it like docker for example. it will crash.
You don't need to run docker for every single thing
if you are looking at Macs, mac book air. Chromebook is a fantastic option in terms of price, though everything may have to stay in the cloud.
macbook air, is no good for programming. sketching and frontend things yes, but when you start running environments within it like docker for example. it will crash.
Windows: Dell XPS 13 has been the go-to laptop for years, they keep refreshing it, so make sure to get at least the 2019 model (which has a camera on the top of the screen, not the bottom), or ideally the 2020 model, which features a new keyboard and even smaller bezels (and a new, 16:10 screen).
Windows runner up: look at Surface Pro 7 (x86) and Pro X (ARM), if the form factor, performance and ergonomics fit your needs, they might be preferable to the XPS 13. The Pro X is quite a wild card, since the compatibility is not quite there yet, but it's closer to a paper notebook than laptops or even the Pro 7.
I would advise against anything smaller than 13", because it will be fairly suboptimal to type on.
Any tablet + x2go or apache guacamole
I mostly do Python development with Vim (web, DevOps, ML/NLP) and Dart/Flutter stuff with VSCode. For bigger workloads I ssh into my iMac.
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macbook air, is no good for programming. sketching and frontend things yes, but when you start running environments within it like docker for example. it will crash.
The use-case is “quickly write tiny JS/PHP/Html programs”. I do that on my Air. I have never used docker and don’t really know what docker is besides a tech-de-jour.