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KRVD2016-06-09 01:44:37
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KRVD, 2016-06-09 01:44:37

What laptop would you recommend for coding in the office/university?

Good day. I decided to buy a laptop with a prospect of > 5 years. At home, I have an average PC on i7 3770 \ 8GB \ GTX 670. A laptop is needed for coding outside the home, for example, for summer practice in a web studio, as well as coding at the university \ on the street. In a laptop, it is important for me:
● powerful i5 \ i7 processor
● RAM > 6GB
● SSD
● good screen so that you can watch movies
● high autonomy
● no discrete video card
● presence of a numeric keypad
● no DVD drive
● light weight, compact and decent Appearance
Budget 60-90k.
The laptop is planned to use Linux\Ubuntu. Windows will be erased immediately after purchase.
After looking for laptops, I found several options that are more or less suitable for me:
LENOVO ThinkPad X1 Carbon
+ long battery life
+ processor
+ appearance
- no digital block
ASUS Zenbook UX303LB
+ processor
+ very nice appearance and compactness
- too compact, 13 inches seemed small for comfortable work
- you will have to buy better RAM and ssd
ASUS K501UX
+ processor \ RAM (just enough out of the box)
+ 4k for movies
+ More or less compact (21mm thick)
+ High autonomy
- It is not clear what the matrix costs, I did not find information (they say ips is better for the eyes, but here xs what it costs at 4k)
I think there is enough power for such laptops to work with a bang, and if not enough, then you can add power to a stationary PC and compile it remotely (if it can be done at all). What would you recommend to choose, or suggest some better option. I myself am more inclined towards ASUS K501UX.

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BVadim, 2016-06-11
@KRVD

Under these requirements, Macbook Air 2016 i5 8Gb 128Gb is best suited. Now it costs about 75,000 rubles. Moreover, if Windows is not needed, then this is the best option. The assembly there is head and shoulders above that of competitors, the battery holds real 10-12 hours, and not only if everything is turned off and the brightness is set to a minimum. It's a very fast SSD, faster than anything you can buy in the 2.5" form factor. OS X has all the Linux goodies you need, but it has a lot of extras that make it very comfortable. The keyboard and trackpad are perfect. The mouse won't work. The only negative is the screen is not a fountain, but it is still competitive, there are worse on the market at the same price, I do not recommend Retina, even though the screen is much better, due to the resolution it consumes much more resources and, as a result, works slower than Air, there, for comfortable work, you really need 16GB of RAM, i.e. the cheapest kit is not enough. It makes sense when there is an opportunity to take the top one. 13" seems small to many, but half of our colleagues have been working on such a diagonal for years without problems. 15" is not particularly carried with you, it's only in the window that the difference seems not big, it will not be comfortable to wear.

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Alexander, 2016-06-09
@kentuck1213

Get a Mac

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A person from Kazakhstan, 2016-06-09
@LenovoId

I have netuk, percent poop, 512 MB RAM, installed a lot of different versions of linux, but better than xp, more than one system did not work on it! So it has 2 local servers and also notepad++ and atom, I watch movies and surf the Internet, i7 and others are gaming machines and not for coding, especially for linux, if you use KDE of course

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