On: Ask HN: Cloud vs. Dedicated Hosting

[that_guy_iain]

A half decent laptop would solve this problem.

[jokethrowaway → that_guy_iain]

It depends on how much crap you're running on it. At the above company everyone was on recent macbook pros.

The model I tend to favour in general is to have service being edited running locally and let it talk to services running in a dev environment.