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To help get context on this, I went back in time and looked at discussion about the initial iPad launch: - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1081505 - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1081140 The first poll is especially telling. Overwhelmingly, people said they wouldn't get this device (2/3 of the voters). The initial iPad was obviously very successful. The complaints in the second thread are largely a mirror o…
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Action.IO... Cloud9... Koding...
Totally dig hosted IDEs. I think it's the way of the future. But why do you need a powerful computer to use them? How does it help? I'm genuinely asking.
The absolute best news about this computer is that it has a 4:3 screen, as it should be. This is the first 4:3 screen I have seen in a very long time. On top of that, it is a fantastic resolution. This is great news.
Now I wish you could switch to portrait on this one and still keep the keyboard.
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> companies build screens with more code friendly aspect ratios Let's hope Lenovo takes a look at this. I'd love a Thinkpad with a high-res screen, 3:2 display, and of course, the venerable TrackPoint and keyboard. Touchscreen is a nice novelty feature but really isn't required.
I'd rather have 4:3 or even 5:4, but I'll take any steps in the direction of square as positive.
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How could we compare then?
Actually comparing Arm versus x86 is really like comparing apples to oranges. One is RISC, other is CISC. One is good with running multiple threads on single core with highly sophisticated branch prediction, other concentrates having many low powered cores each hoarding threads. And this is very, very crude simplification. Benchmarks tend to be always favor other camp, depending which attributes you are testing.
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I'd rather have 4:3 or even 5:4, but I'll take any steps in the direction of square as positive.
If tall thin windows are better, why not have a widescreen with two windows side by side?
My thinking is that a screen that's close to square works better for a wider range of tasks than one that's very oblong. A rotating oblong screen that could be tall or wide might work nicely for a lot of situations too, but it would be hard to implement well on a laptop.
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I'd rather have 4:3 or even 5:4, but I'll take any steps in the direction of square as positive.
If tall thin windows are better, why not have a widescreen with two windows side by side?
(At this point some wag is going to suggest portrait mode, but I've never seen a laptop with a portrait screen that can be used at the same time as the keyboard).
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They're toys compared to Visual Studio or XCode (or Emacs).
Pretty sure Square disagrees, and they know what they're talking about when it comes to XCode. See PonyDebugger, a tool they wrote to pipe iOS apps' network connections and debug information through Chrome to take advantage of the developer tools: https://github.com/square/PonyDebugger Now, you'd never write code in the Chrome Developer Tools (except maybe the occasional one-liner in the REPL). But the Chrome Develop…
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This has a far better screen than either of those objectively and a more preferable aspect ratio for many of us subjectively. Installing arbitrary Linux distributions on Chromebooks has been trivial in the past and almost certainly remains so with this one. Many people here would install their Linux distribution of choice on whatever laptop they bought anyway, so the shipping OS is a non-issue.
And Linux would boot at native resolution, making the contents of your screen microscopic and useless. Linux isn't ready for High DPI.
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> companies build screens with more code friendly aspect ratios Let's hope Lenovo takes a look at this. I'd love a Thinkpad with a high-res screen, 3:2 display, and of course, the venerable TrackPoint and keyboard. Touchscreen is a nice novelty feature but really isn't required.
> I'll take any steps in the direction of square as positive If someone proposes a Kickstarter project for a mobile developer workstation with a solid design, 4:3 high-res screen, pointing stick, and great keyboard, I'll be the first to hop on. Or maybe I should go ahead and make that Kickstarter project a reality instead of waiting for someone to.