<story><title>A small notebook for a system administrator</title><url>https://habr.com/en/post/437912/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anilakar</author><text>Mostly reminds me of &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;simpsons.fandom.com&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Homer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;simpsons.fandom.com&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Homer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;On a serious note, I mostly disagree about the small size. The author mentioned his preferred size being A5, which is about half a letter. Having to type commands on machine that just fits under your palms is painful. I&amp;#x27;d rather have a large keyboard, large screen and a large battery.&lt;p&gt;My current EDC setup is an X250 with a huge bag of adapter dongles, carried in a Falcon II.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Arnt</author><text>Some of us (I assume OP is one of them) think that since your screen won&amp;#x27;t be &lt;i&gt;large&lt;/i&gt; anyway, there is little point to having a screen bigger than your preferred keyboard size.&lt;p&gt;And since your battery won&amp;#x27;t be large enough to support compiling LLVM in reasonable time anyway, it&amp;#x27;s better to just get used to do CPU-heavy stuff by ssh-ing to a rackmount somewhere use the laptop for terminal-ish tasks.</text></comment>
<story><title>A small notebook for a system administrator</title><url>https://habr.com/en/post/437912/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anilakar</author><text>Mostly reminds me of &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;simpsons.fandom.com&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Homer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;simpsons.fandom.com&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Homer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;On a serious note, I mostly disagree about the small size. The author mentioned his preferred size being A5, which is about half a letter. Having to type commands on machine that just fits under your palms is painful. I&amp;#x27;d rather have a large keyboard, large screen and a large battery.&lt;p&gt;My current EDC setup is an X250 with a huge bag of adapter dongles, carried in a Falcon II.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkdbejwi383</author><text>&amp;gt; which is about half a letter&lt;p&gt;What oddly specific unit of measurement is this?</text></comment>