Tag: Laptop

You Can Still Use an MS-DOS Laptop in 2023

Let’s take a challenge and imagine that you have this machine from 1988. Which by the way, had a $1,999 price — the value equivalent to $4,989 today. Can we do something useful on this laptop nowadays? Let’s figure it out. Specs At the end of the 80s, the typical personal ...

Laptop development is dead: why remote development is the future

I have spent a decade in charge of development tooling teams. During that time, I watched the rise and fall of Vagrant and the introduction of Docker and a plethora of other build tools. I remember when most developers had two desktops under their desks, and I helped with the mas...

A Day In The Life With The Surface Laptop Go 2: A Review

Recently, the Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 was on sale on Amazon. The model with eight gigs of RAM and 128 gigabyte SSD was available for €499 including taxes. There is also a version with four gigs of RAM, however, I would steer clear of it as it is a Windows machine, and Windows 11 alre...

3 Months Laptop-Free in Dublin

Having decided to leave my career in London, England after almost 7 years and move to Dublin, Ireland for a new and exciting position, I had to make a fresh start in a series of things. New and more spacious house, new housemates-colleagues-friends, new and wonderful accent by the locals, new and mo...