I thought the Pinebook Pro screen was fantastic. 14'' feels spacious after 13.3 :) The keyboard you sorta get used to. My main problem was the 4GB of RAM that couldn't really run Emacs and Firefox simultaneously. Do you code without a browser on the side?
I've tried to have an emacs-only workflow - but lots of stuff is complicated. CIDER will now open/browse ClojureDocs, but there is still no way to display JavaDocs without a browser. I also dunno how to browser Github short of cloning every repo I use.
I'd appreciate any tips :)
However, that said, I never found the processing power problematic
I'm not the GP, and I don't necessarily have a solution for you, but I'm curious about your workflow.
My 19-tab Firefox (with Gmail open) is consuming 1.2 GB, and my fully-loaded Spacemacs is ~250 MB. What's your memory consumption look like, and how many tabs do you usually have open?
Suggestions for reducing memory usage: check about:performance for high-memory tabs, use uBlock and NoScript to block large images and JavaScript from loading by default, set permissions.default.image to 2/3[1] if you have lots of image-heavy sites, I suppose?
You might just have to resign yourself to using a small number of tabs. Firefox doesn't give you a lot of knobs to tune memory usage with, and already is lighter on RAM than Chrome (at the expense of CPU/latency).
Postscript: it would be really nice if Firefox allowed a "click-to-play, but for images" addon - but it seems like that's not possible, given that zero addons exist that implement it.
Reducing the Firefox content process limit from the default 8 to perhaps 2 should help (assuming the default is the same on smaller systems, I guess I'm not sure it is ...)
I'm also generally working in Clojure/CIDER which eats tons of memory. The JVM just doesn't give back memory easily. I need to see if maybe there is some JVM setting I can set that would help. I even have issues with this on my 8GB daily-use laptop
Then you carelessly do something intensive, blow through your memory limit and the OOM-killer nukes your process
I've tried to have an emacs-only workflow - but lots of stuff is complicated. CIDER will now open/browse ClojureDocs, but there is still no way to display JavaDocs without a browser. I also dunno how to browser Github short of cloning every repo I use.
I'd appreciate any tips :)
However, that said, I never found the processing power problematic