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Posted by Larry Kollar
May 22, 2018 at 03:05 AM

 

Seriously, if you’re using org-mode and Markdown, just about anything that gives you a shell would do. It’s fairly simple to turn a Chromebook into a full Linux box, although you’d probably want to avoid the <$400 models. Get something with sufficient flash/RAM & CPU.

Having said that, I gravitate toward MacOS for most things, partly because it works without a lot of tinkering and partly because I can drop to a shell any time I need. They are expensive only when compared with low-end systems—a similarly-equipped WIndows system has a very similar price tag. A lot of the software discussed on this forum tends to be Mac-only or at least Mac-centric, though (as another poster pointed out) cloud-based software can make the OS little more than a launchpad for the browser.

But given what you’ve said you’re doing, I’d look at a mid-range laptop running some flavor of Linux. Security is decent, you’ll have Chrome and Firefox, and you can escape the GUI and all its distractions by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1.

 


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