Choosing a laptop for life and for work?

Question

laptops

Dear colleagues.
I want to ask for your advice. The fact is that the day before yesterday (as a birthday present, apparently) my beloved Dell Latitude D620 died untimely. It’s not worth staying without a tool, so I ask for your help in choosing a replacement for it.
The laptop will be used both for home and recreation (Internet, movies, music, sometimes sound recording using a good external card), and for work (I work as a C ++ programmer, so I need a lot of power, low-voltage processors are swept aside immediately). The OS will be a dual boot from Windows 7 (Home Premium or older, it would be better if it was included) and GNU / Linux (most likely Kubuntu, I work in it).
Of the requirements - Core i3 / i5 / i7, two cores. Memory from 4 gigabytes. In principle, discrete graphics are not needed (Aero and Compiz / KWin will work on the integrated Intel), but it won't hurt. The display size is 13-14 inches, you definitely need a good resolution (1366x768 is clearly not enough for me, let 1440x900 or 1600x900 be better). I would like a relatively capacious battery (so that it does not work for 1.5-2 hours). The hard drive is not important (the WD Scorpio Blue bought a year ago was left from the deceased Dell), the DVD drive is not needed at all. Yes, unfortunately, I have back problems, so the weight is limited to 2.4-2.5 Kg from above.
Here I am asking for your help. I really liked the HP Envy 14 (especially after the review on Engadget ), but HP discontinued the modification with a normal display, only WXGA remained.
The budget can be limited to, say, 50 thousand rubles, but for a particularly good option, I am ready to overpay a little.
Sorry for such a long introduction and thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

Look at the previous generation Sony vaio Z, of course there is a Core 2 Duo, but it doesn’t cause any complaints about performance, 1.4 Kg, it works for a long time, the display is 1600 * 900, it will meet the price. Or a new Z line, but prices there are closer to 80-100, but you will get i7 and SSD and FullHD in the same 1.4 Kg.
As for reliability, they said above - my laptop fell on ice from a meter height in a thin bag 3 times, a 5mm crack on the bottom (fell at an angle) and a small dent on the metal (fell on its edge), it works like a clock.

Answer 2

I would advise Lenovo THINKPAD T510 or from this series.
I looked at this model myself, but my budget was more limited, so I opted for the ASUS K42JK.
But my device still has a rather low resolution, and there are all sorts of nuances with ATI under the lines.
In general, I concluded for myself that if the budget were higher, I would take Lenovo, but ASUS is not disappointed either.

Answer 3

Try to look at the parameters in Yandex.Market.
market.yandex.ru/guru.xml?CMD=-RR=9 ,0,0,0-PF=2142398543%2BEQ%2Bsel%2Bx1670617601-PF=2142398543%2BEQ%2Bsel%2Bx1670617603-PF=2142398534%2BLT%2Bsel % 2B16-PF = 2,142,398,534% 2BGT% 2Bsel% 2B13-PF = 2,142,398,532% 2BEQ% 2Bsel% 2Bx807144164-PF = 2,142,398,532% 2BEQ% 2Bsel% 2Bx903735152-PF = 2,142,398,532% 2BEQ% 2Bsel% 2Bx1606163617-PF = 2,142,398,532% 2BEQ% 2Bsel %2Bx54427141-PF=2142398470%2BGT%2Bsel%2B4-PF=2142398462%2BLT%2Bsel%2B2.6-VIS=1F2-CAT_ID=432460-EXC=1-PG=10&hid=
91013 did not include in the request):
market.yandex.ru/model.xml?hid=91013&modelid=6296261
market.yandex.ru/model.xml?hid=91013&modelid=6278224

Answer 4

I got myself a Sony Vaio VPCF13S1R/B… very happy! For a developer, good matrix resolution is very important. It's also powerful, well, a bit too big (16"), but that doesn't bother me :)

Answer 5

Too lazy to repost a ready-made answer, so take a look here . Just a similar question was already recently.