What are the minimum specifications for a laptop to run OpenServer and PHP?

Question

PHP

Hello!
Started learning PHP.
I watch video tutorials in WMP, I write code in Notepad++, I read books in PDF and DJVu. Software environment - OpenServer.
At home, there is a catastrophic lack of time, and on the road, every day, to work and back, I spend 2 hours.
In connection with such circumstances, I set out to buy a laptop. So as not to waste time in vain, but to spend it with benefit.
Help me decide on the settings.
So far, I'm interested in the minimum requirements for a laptop so that you can work normally.
In the future, if everything goes well for me, I will get a more powerful one.
But for now, we need an inexpensive, lightweight and with a diagonal of 10-13 ".
What else to look for when buying (for example, what processor, its frequency, how much RAM will be enough, etc.)
Thanks in advance for your help!

Answer 1

I have been working on a Samsung laptop for 2 years with 300GB of hard and 2GB of RAM. still enough, and I think for a long time. The simpler the iron, the better for you. You will immediately see which pieces of code need to be optimized to work faster. And in the end (!) php is not a shader for 3d games to write, there is not much needed. A thousand for 10 rubles is more than enough for you to work.

Answer 2

Yes, basically anyone will do. Choose the one you like. Give priority to laptops with hybrid hard drives (or with SSD), RAM 4+ (8 gigs is definitely enough), processor - I don’t see any reason to take stronger core i5. There is no significant difference in frequency. Give priority to the processor with the largest cache size. You can get by with embedded video.
In a word ... any laptop that can run a virtual box with ubuntu, because after some time you may come to the realization that win for web development is somehow not serious (unless of course you are a .NET-chik)

Answer 3

It worked for me on a netbook with an atom n270 and two gigs of memory. I mean, it was a very weak car. The server worked, and normally, although I did not run Bitrix sites on it. From what is now being sold, I believe that absolutely anyone will suit you, but I would recommend at least 4 gigabytes of memory to watch, eight is better, not for Openserver (it eats little), but for a development environment, browser, some kind of photoshop and other related.