Cheap laptop

[St0rmSlaSh]

Hey everyone! I was wondering if any one knows about a cheap laptop I can get for coding. Pretty much the only programs I will run on it is Sublime Text 2 and maybe ET If anyone would like to help, I would appreciate it

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Chromebook with a 225gb SSD

[St0rmSlaSh]

I thought you could not run programs on chrome os

[-=HipKat=-]

I thought of that after I posted it. I think there are some. Tbh, I'd use a Linux box and run et on that

[Xernicus]

If you have access to a debit card and/or a PayPal account, I'd recommend getting a used ThinkPad off of eBay. You can probably get a relatively high-spec machine from around 2011-2012 for around $150.

Now if you're looking to buy new, or you just have access to cash, I'd go for an HP Stream or a Lenovo IdeaPad.

[St0rmSlaSh]

Alright, thx! I don't have a debit card, my mom won't let me have one xD

[St0rmSlaSh]

Would an aver aspire work? I could downgrade to windows 7 and get sublime

Acer*

[Xernicus]

I don't see why an Aspire wouldn't work. Though I am curious as to why you'd downgrade to Win7. Usually downgrade rights cost extra money, and Win 7, 8, and 8.1 all qualify for a free upgrade to Windows 10, which I have found to be extremely stable and easy to use.

[St0rmSlaSh]

It actually costs no cash to me because I have a windows 7 ultimate disk I just don't like the newer operatin systems

[St0rmSlaSh]

I did my research, I am either wanting to get the stream or the aspire

[Xernicus]

I'd go for the Stream. The Stream uses an Atom processor, whereas the Aspire uses a Celeron.

The Atom will have the same performance as the Celeron most likely, though will use less power- thus maximizing the battery life. It also has more cache on the CPU, so even though the clock speed is lower, you might actually get better performance.

I could run a quick comparison if you have particular models that you're looking to compare (like HP Steam 11 vs Aspire One Cloudbook)

[St0rmSlaSh]

Those are actually the ones I am comparing lol

[St0rmSlaSh]

Would an iBook work?

[Xernicus]

Would an iBook work?

I could probably dig one of my old ones out and *give* you an iBook.

 

But my answer is yes and no. Unfortunately, I am a PowerPC mac guy, so I really like to believe that those machines (G4, G5) are still capable for basic and not-so basic everyday tasks.

For running a text editor, no problem. You can run some older versions of Coda and Apple's XCode. And probably find old packages for IDEs and whatnot. Hell, ET would run alright too.

 

I've even cross-compiled Intel programs to run on the PPC processor. But that takes some serious knowledge about the UNIX kernel that's running behind the scenes.

Here's the major bottlenecks:

 

-Fastest CPU you can get in one of those is like 1.2 or 1.4GHz.

-The most RAM you can put in there is like 2GB.

-You are limited to IDE for your hard disk, so that will be, well... slow.

-Maximum wireless standard it can connect to is Wireless G afaik. (54 Mbps)

-Playing online videos and streaming music will be a burden to the machine.

-You will probably need to use a forked version of Mozilla Firefox, such as TenFourFox. TFF does not support plugins.

 

So really... I can't recommend it. I wish I could, but unless you have a knowledge beforehand that this is a platform that is no longer developed for, is unsecure, and a good 10 years behind where we are today, I'd strongly recommend against going for it.

 

I guess it depends on how much the iBook would cost. If it's cheap, I might say "get it anyways"- but I wouldn't use it as a daily driver by any means. I've tried. And failed.

[St0rmSlaSh]

Oh.. Alright. I will just be saving up and getting a stream then! And one other thing, I really really want to make javascript games, I am looking up tutorials on youtube but they don't explain enough. Do you have any suggestions on any tutorials???