Choosing a laptop for a programming student?

Question

Programming

Good afternoon. I'm leaving to study in another city and now the question arose of choosing a laptop up to 55 thousand rubles (850 dollars).
I plan to code, do photoshop/editing, some games.
The choice fell on: Lenovo IdeaPad Y50-70 or ASUS K501UX
The problem is that the 2nd has a low-voltage processor. Is it worth taking Lenovo or a low-voltage processor to cope with its task?
Other options are possible.
PS Is it worth taking 1920x1080 or 1366x768 is enough?

Answer 1

The low voltage processor is the one marked with U in the model name, if I understand correctly.
In theory, he can cope with the tasks of a programmer and even manage to mount it. A non-low-voltage processor is about 15-40% more productive , depending on the model. If the games, then perhaps better and Y50-70.
The higher the resolution of the screen, the more pleasant it is to work and the eyes are less tired.

Answer 2

Or is 1366x768 enough?

Will not be enough.
Roughly speaking, you will not have a debug panel in the IDE along with the code.

Answer 3

I once bought a Lenovo B590 for 13K, bought separately an SSD for 5k and 8GB of RAM for 4k. More than enough for coding.

Answer 4

I don’t know what a low-voltage processor is, but for such money it owes you more coffee in the morning) It will certainly cope if we are talking about Photoshop. If you want to edit video on more resource-intensive programs, it will also cope, it will already depend on the RAM.

Answer 5

you should start to disassemble in processors, for a start it's the core frequency, not the voltage, so I'm a student programmer.
1) Cope with your needs and two worse beeches
2) More resolution, better for the eyes

Answer 6

I had a laptop Lenovo Z570, which I bought at the end of 2011. Everything about it was wonderful. After a couple of years, however, the display mount began to fall off. But two years for a laptop is a long time, and I used it for the whole. At first I carried it with me to school, at home I played Dota with it, I took it to drinking parties as a portable player, more than one pint of beer was spilled on it and the keyboard in it was a consumable item, I entered the university - did homework on it, played DotA, wore it to lectures.
1.5 years ago, according to old memory, I bought a Lenovo Z5070 for 36k. Iron is good. Full HD display, 6 GB of RAM. First passed under warranty, tk. the keyboard didn't always work. It happens that you press a key, but the character is not printed. He was kept for 40 days, returned with the replacement of Claudia. Did not help. In addition, the mount began to loosen. I somehow did not pay attention to this, because. The laptop most of the time lay on the shelf and collected dust. It has never been actively used. And about a month ago I decided to sell it. I climbed in to clean the dust, opened it, I looked - the mount was completely broken. All 3 bolts are uprooted from the plastic. I used it once a week when I went to visit my parents at the weekend. In general, the sale of this trash is now in question.
According to the same old memory, at about the same time as the Z5070 was bought, two Lenovo phones were bought for parents. Six months later, both began to drive the sensor. You press in the middle of the screen - it is pressed below. They lie unrealistic.
I had ASUS K551LB at the same time, until I gave it to my mother. A wonderful ultrabook, it was enough for me to work. He understood by unscrewing 10 bolts around the perimeter. The lid opened without the support of the lower part. Beautiful, comfortable, but with a resolution of 1366. But believe me, this is not a great trouble, as opposed to all the inferiority of lenova.
Why am I all this. Never again in my life will I take this, sorry, crap - Lenovo. Maybe in the early 2010s they were ok, but not now.