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Discussion on: What are your computer’s specs? Which specs are particularly important to you?

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Matthew Daly • Edited

I do most of my work on my open source projects on an HP Stream netbook with 2GB of RAM and 32GB storage space.

It doesn't sound a lot, but I run Xubuntu on it and it's fast enough. I don't usually need a database other than SQLite, nor do I need a full web server. It's portable enough to take anywhere, and cheap enough that if I lose it it's not a big deal.

It wouldn't be sufficient for my day job, and I sometimes switch to my Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition for more demanding work, but I can get a surprising amount done with the Stream.