Programmer's laptop: Lenovo IdeaPad Z510A VS ASUS N550JV

Question

Programming

I am choosing a new laptop. The initial wishes were: a comfortable keyboard, the presence of an SSD, and a faster percentage,
a ceiling of 9000 UAH +/- 300, for the home, a long time of work is not critical.
I know I didn't list everything. Here is a range of programs: Eclipse, NetBeans, Adobe PS, Chrome 50+ tabs, MySQL Workbench. + the whole set and five more browsers can be launched.
It is also planned to use an external monitor.
Links:
ASUS N550JV
Lenovo IdeaPad Z510A
I decided to pick up a new machine. The choice fell on these two. If there is a reason, advise another.
Lenovo:
+ Price, 8 GB RAM from the start, SSD slot (8 GB is fine for a start)
-/+ Unknown i7 gem (didn't find specs about 4702MQ, just found 4702HQ, as I understood the difference is not great)
- Glossy screen, wify (according to a review from the off site, a weak adapter)
Asus:
+ i7 4700HQ, GeForce GT 750
- HDD 750 Gb, Win 8, you can not put an SSD instead of a drive (there is no slot, judging by the descriptions)
It is not clear with the keyboard like everyone else, the reviews turned up nothing.
I want a better video card, looking into the future so that the machine will serve more, but I didn’t notice much difference between 740 and 750.
Asus win 8 - as I understand it, returning the OS is very expensive and the cost will not decrease much.
By the way, asus'a design is more like with its parameters, but the lack of SSD scares away.
UPD:
decided to choose between
Lenovo IdeaPad Y510p
and MSI GP70-2OD
chose MSI GP70-2OD

Answer 1

None of the above. The resolution of 1366x768 is the last century. You will open the eclipse, the project browser + log will gobble up the whole place, there will be no code left.
Watch the machine with Full HD. Lenovo y500/y510 for example. The configuration with one video card just falls into the price category. There is msata ssd, 16 gigs of RAM, keyboard backlight. Excellent speakers.

Answer 2

I would take a mac book pro 13 md 101 + 16Gb of RAM, you can put an SSD instead of a dvd. The keyboard is superb.

Answer 3

Only a month ago I faced such a choice (with the exception, perhaps, of the fact that I do not use an external monitor). As a result, I spent quite a lot of time choosing and settled on this laptop: http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15r-se-7520/pd
Pros:
1. Screen - 15 inches, matte, 1920x1080
2. Instead of a DVD, an SSD
3. i7 was successfully installed
4. Discrete card - sometimes play games
5. Linux works out of the box (no discrete video card)
6. 4 USB slots (USB 3.0)
Cons:
1. Windows 8
2. Video card drivers (in the end, I managed to set it up only under Windows, under Linux - no)
3. Weight - more than two kg (it's not critical for me)
So far, I'm happy with everything, except for the drivers for the video card and Windows 8 (mainly due to the fact that support for some games has broken, for example, Fifa 13). But since I use Linux 95% of the time - these cons do not really bother me.

Answer 4

I can comment on the n550jv:
- the site with your link is lying, there is a fullhd MATTE IPS matrix (although not the coolest, but still, it pleases my eye);
- people with ixbt calmly put the HDD Caddy and rejoice, just need to take the version with 9mm thickness;
- it pleases in terms of performance, in terms of heating too (for me it’s so quiet and not hot, even when it comes to games)
- the laptop is excellent for its money (I don’t know how for a programmer, it’s quite good for a system administrator, as a home machine), the only thing in in the first batches, there was a large percentage of marriage, he himself encountered the first copy, he was replaced in the store without any problems.
if in hryvnia 9000-9300 then in rubles it turns out = 36k-37.2k, I just bought for 37k in September, and now it costs less than 35, in the younger configuration.