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Any suggestions for cheap but decent laptops for coding?
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Looking it up, it seems like a delightful little laptop, but it's too big. It's got a 13.3 inch screen, and I'm limited to a total laptop width of 11 inches.
The screen is measured diagonally.
The screen width won't be 13 inches.
Not the screen width. The laptop width. The total space I have to work with is exactly 11 inches wide.
(I didn't have a ruler, so I used a 3-hole punch, which has the zero point in the center, and spreads out 5½ inches in each direction, resulting in a total width of 11 inches.)
The laptop won't be 13.3 inches either.
Wait, now I get what you're saying.
What do you mean the laptop won't have a 13.3" screen? The page I linked to said it does. And if the screen is 13.3", then the total laptop width will be more than that.
I've got a Lenovo P11, goes pretty well on a charge, and VSCode is available on android, haven't used it much as I almost always code at home now.
Oh shit! I didn't even know VSCode was available for Android. Nice! Thank you!
Edit: Er, nevermind. VSCode is indeed available on Android, but for US$12. Ew. Thanks anyway though. :)
That's fucked up, it was $8AUD when I got it like a year ago. Fuckin corpos and their price hikes.
I was happy to swallow it to code on the go, but I only used it for a few weeks. Sometimes I lay in bed to code though so I can watch TV as well (never mind all the errors I make as a result).
Honestly, why should it be paid at all when it's free on desktop? That doesn't make sense to me.
I thought exactly the same thing, as previously though, I was willing to swallow the $8 (at the time) in order to use my tablet for coding (may as well be a laptop running android tbh).