alt Hacker NewsDid the same for my freshman year of Uni on a $99 Chromebook. Java and C dev on 4GB of ram wasn't an issue.
That said, I quickly upgraded to a 4 year used Thinkpad and that was a huge difference.
Did the same for my freshman year of Uni on a $99 Chromebook. Java and C dev on 4GB of ram wasn't an issue.
That said, I quickly upgraded to a 4 year used Thinkpad and that was a huge difference.
C dev wasn't an issue back in the 1 GB or 256 MB or 16 MB days either. You just didn't use to have a Chrome tab open that by itself is eating 345 MB just to show a simple tutorial page.