What is the best working laptop under 2.5k € ?
To be used for development.
Looking for god tier keyboard and display, needs to be 14" and sturdy - these are highest prios.
Also I do not want a macbook, though I might get convinced.
What is the best working laptop under 2.5k € ?
Daniel Hill
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Dominic Cook
2.5k wtf? If you spend that much you're an idiot. Midrange ThinkPad will do fine, spend some of the rest on another display, keyboard, mouse
Luis Brown
ThinkPad T520
>Good display
>Fairly powerful
>God-tier classic thinkpad keyboard
>Trackpoint
Matthew Ross
MacBook pro 13" with truetone display.
Upgrade the RAM to 16GiB and the SSD to 512GiB.
You can't beat it overall for the price.
You can beat the CPU/RAM easily in other laptops, but no laptop will have a combination of all of these
- quality of screen (resolution, argb completeness, ppi)
- trackpad (Apple's are first in class, which is good because their mice blow)
- number of USB-C ports (4)
- wireless card (full duplex)
- battery life
The tradeoffs, as mentioned, are
- less CPU power (still more than enough for modern development on the go)
- less ability to customize your build (in the future you might want more space)
- if you need a discrete GPU then you will have to buy an external
- Satania will laugh at you
- thermal throttling (all laptops are susceptible to this, but MacBooks experience it a bit more due to their silent design)
You will have access to all of your GNU utilities on MacOS (if you choose to stay on platform), just get them from Homebrew. And the development experience will be significantly better than Windows and comparable to Linux (better in my opinion, just for the ease of use that goes into them)
Good luck, identify your priorities, and find what works best for you.
Ayden Cook
Adding on, Apple has a no questions asked return policy for 7 days.
You can try one out and see if it suits you, and get a better impression of its pros and cons before choosing to return it or keep it.
Elijah Nguyen
No need to call names, this will not be paid by me. Doesn't need to be 2,5k, this is the upper limit for hardware and I want to squeeze some other things apart from laptop under this budget
Eli Long
>regular solution
Chinkpad X1 Carbon
>crazy uncle solution
X1 Extreme
James Hernandez
Literally any modern business laptop that isn't some ultra thin piece of shit aimed at executives.
Anthony Turner
>isn't some ultra thin piece of shit aimed at executives.
ie: don't get - it's a toy not a work machine.
Logan Gutierrez
>considering macshit
>for even a nanosecond
Zachary Phillips
Dell Latitude + docking station + external keyboard of choice + monitor of choice
Jace Jackson
>filthy smoker clogs up the fans with his cancervape
>blames computer for not working in subhuman conditions
Luis Cooper
haha
Hunter Cruz
LEL
Leo Robinson
>you're using it wrong
stay classy, macfag
if you don't wanna fall for the p52 meme, which is pretty amazing, hp makes some decent zbooks
Christian Cox
>ThinkPad T520
Not everyone wants an ancient laptop.
Julian Jones
Wrong board kiddo.
Alexander Morales
I just felt a certain urge
Brody Anderson
>dark night of the soul
Benjamin Johnson
an itoddler has defended this
Noah Nelson
The Thinkpad T480 looks good on paper. Not the best display, but I don't need it for programming.
Alternatively the Dell 7490.
Josiah Gutierrez
I want a t480s so bad.
Adam Rogers
good lad
Nathaniel Nelson
Anything that can run the OS your using with comfort. The most important thing after a functional computer is one that has a comfortable keyboard you enjoy. The rest should be based on reliability, cost and whatever else you want. A shitty typing experience on a computer that runs at 5 fps on the desktop is not a general purpose computer anymore.
David Carter
Why does a dev need a "god tier display" for vim???
Noah Lopez
2.5k? Get a Thinkpad W700ds and tie yourself on a doorknob, faggot.
Jose Wright
I want you to die.
Dominic Kelly
Prestigio SmartBook 133S
Blake Davis
If youre not paying, get all you can, like a lenovo carbon or some shit. Indistuctable beasts those are.
Leo Morales
Something like lenovo.com
Ian Roberts
Why would you ever spend that much on a laptop.
For that money you could get 25 X200 or T400.
Better use of your 2500 bux would be to get X200 or T400, or both, and a desktop/server with the rest.
You probably don't need to spend that much for the desktop/server either.
The 25 X200 would probably be better use as well.
Luke Gonzalez
t420
it's a 14inch brick you can use to bash someone's head in
and upgrade ram to 8GB, the socketed cpu and even display panel to 1080 IPS using one or another chink 100$ kit (incl. panel itself)
and add an optional second battery for that 11+h no-cord-no-worries battery life and more heaviness
total expenses
without upgrades -
Henry Bailey
>for development
What kind of development? Does your job require a powerful GPU? If so, is an eGPU with a workstation graphics card acceptable? Do you need to have a retarded docker setup where you're going to be running 10 containers to do the simplest of tasks?