The best laptop for Programming

[Guest]

Hello, I'm a Software Engineering student. I'm going to buy a laptop soon. Which laptop is best for Programming? Which laptop I should buy?
Please recommend a laptop for me.

With Many Thanks,
Daniel Saung

 

[GezimMusliaj]

i think would be best an Alien Ware M17X

 

[Ivan Ivanov]

This laptop is best for everything, you are kidding him

 

[sminlal]

My experience with Visual Studio 2008 was vastly improved when I went from a mechanical hard drive to an SSD. Times to load the IDE and to find help information were drastically reduced. If you're going to use VS then I'd highly recommend an SSD in your laptop.

 

[mindless728]

well, i just bought a Compal NBLB2 with Core i7-720QM + 8GB ram (multiple VM's at the same time) check my configurations for more specs

more than likely you probably don't need that power, a simple Dell/HP/take your pick brand will work just fine

EDIT: there are quite a few students who use netbooks and they do the job fine, unless you are doing computational heavy tasks which you won't be since Software Engineering is more about developing apps as opposed to the Computer Science which is about theory and computation (actually trying to minimize the amount of steps to reach an answer)

 

[das_stig]

Using VS 2010 on my laptop shown in siggy and runs very smoothly.

 

[mindless728]

Using VS 2010 on my laptop shown in siggy and runs very smoothly.

this is mine:

Windows 7 x64
Arch Linux
Compal NBLB2
Intel Core i7-720QM
8GB(2x4GB) DDR3-1333
Radeon mobility HD5650
WD 640GB HDD
15.6\\\" 1920x1080