Tell me about your laptop with ARM chip. I am very much interested in one myself. All I need it is to run a browser, a terminal, and a ssh client (or mosh) and last for full day. Tell me you have something like that and can recommend 
hubertlepicki
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OvermindDL1
They are a couple of chromebooks, one for me and one for my wife, I have a hacked up ubuntu on mine but can dual-boot between it and the chromeos. ^.^
And yes, that is precisely what I use it for, web browsing, terminal, ssh, and vnc-over-ssh. ^.^
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AstonJ
These seem to be out now - with (affordable) servers available with 8 core chips.. anyone tried these new AMDs with an Elixir project yet?
https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-7-1700x
I’m thinking about getting a new server soon and wondering whether I should opt for this. I’ve only had an AMD computer once (a long time a go) and unfortunately it was unstable as hell! Wonder if these new AMDs are better in that regard…
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Eiji
OvermindDL1
I drool over getting one of those on my desktop, but sadly my current ancient CPU has not died yet, plus lack of money… >.>
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mkunikow
I would suggest first to check how platform is stable and drivers for OS.
For linux Intel is king IMO .
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AstonJ
Stability definitely concerns me - and on further looking, the intel Xeons are not too bad (price-wise) when you factor those machines usually also have a lot more ram.
For now I think I will stick with 4-cores… until I get some Elixir apps up and the need arises for more 
I reckon we should try and contact AMD tho, and see if they would be up to sponsoring a comparison for concurrent programming workloads… could be a big market for them if we all jump to AMD 
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Nicd
I have an AMD Ryzen R7 1700 now, currently OC’d to 3.7 GHz. But it’s running Windows and I do my development on that machine in an Ubuntu VM that is set to 8 cores, so can’t really run any benchmarks there.
Really good experience for myself, no longer have to worry what apps I have open when I play games / run VMs.
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mkunikow
