Now that I look at prices of higher specced machines, I feel I will put a little extra cash in and go for something more powerful.
I was looking at around £150-180 off ebay for a 1Gb 1.66Ghz Atom 10" laptop. However, if I stick another £100-150 on I can prob get a 15" i5 with 4gb on it. I think this should be ample for any processing/compiling issues I should have. As far as the vim vs eclipse argument. All the java work I've done so far has been through an IDE, but mainly as I don't know java, and don't know about setting up android projects and all the files that come with it, when a project is built using an IDE. However, I would love to get good with the command line as that is what I use for my day job (Perl Dev) and vim is increasingly becoming my weapon of choice. If I can code my android stuff in that too, then I'll become a stronger vim user, which is a separate, but also valid, aim of mine. Thanks for all your advice. I'll let you know when I've successfully won something off ebay! Russ On Sunday, December 2, 2012 7:51:14 PM UTC, Russell Wheeler wrote: > > So far I have been developing directly on my galaxy nexus and nexus 7 > using the amazing AID app. > > However, as the N7 can't provide logs due to it being jelly bean, i feel > the need to get a mini notebook in order to utilise adb logcat. > > My main worry is that something with only 1gb (2gb if i upgrade, which i > will) and a 1.5-1.83GHz atom CPU won't be powerful enough. > > I can possibly get around certain worries by not using emulators and > testing directly on my two devices, so that will save me a great deal. Also > I am tempted to just use vim and command line tools instead of eclipse > which again might save me from a slow PC. > > What do you guys think? Is the notebook way under powered? What if i just > use vim and no emulators? > > Side note, does anyone actually code in vim/command line? > > Cheers > > Russ > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
