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Comment by gregjor | Hacker News Reader

The massive discrepancy in specs absolutely matters. It will reduce your productivity from 10X to a mere 9.99X. And forget about crafting professional artisanal code on that cramped toy setup. I would send it back tomorrow with something extra in the box to show your disgust with this scam.

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Why this RAM/SSD/CPU (AMD Ryzen 3 4300U 4 core, 4 threads) setup in E14 is not enough for professional artisanal code? Can it be sufficient for dual booting Windows10/Ubuntu 22.04 and learning the relevant coding skills to at least 80%? Or do you need Linux only installed without dual boot?

Lots of programmers, myself included, learned relevant coding skills on hardware far less capable than what you describe. You don’t need a Ferrari to learn how to drive a car. The hardware has very little to do with learning programming.

So why did you mentioned "And forget about crafting professional artisanal code on that cramped toy setup."? I will be using Windows in dual boot with Ubuntu, and if VM allows to activate Windows from a VM, I may remove Windows completely from this laptop.

How can you define my "productivity" on the basis of the laptop only with no individual data about myself? How can a 30GB presumably lacking in an SSD with ~890GB free space "degrade my productivity"? Is forgetting about crafting professional artisanal code on that cramped toy setup is just your personal opinion skewed by Dunning-Kruger effect or you can provide some arguments of a logical or physical type?

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