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A comment on Ask HN: What's the best laptop for development now?.

Re:Ask HN: What's the best laptop for development now? by philippz on Thursday June 15, 2017 @08:04AM (#14559566)
I used to work with HP Elitebook (yes, Windows) for 7 years and after that switched to Macbook Pro. I enjoyed both. While the Mac has the right filesystem in place, is fast and reliable. The HP Elitebook was easy to upgrade in terms of hardware. I enjoyed both. The HP Elitebook was a bit heavy though especially because it is very well processed and i used the drive slot for a second SSD.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best laptop for development now? by limeblack on Thursday June 15, 2017 @01:36PM (#14562487)
I have also used an Elitebook. It was okay. Their battery life at least when I used them were terrible(both length and amount of times recharged). I went through 3 batteries while I owned such laptop.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best laptop for development now? by philippz on Thursday June 15, 2017 @11:50PM (#14566553)
That sounds crazy. Of course the battery life suffered over time but it an "ok"ish manner. I heavily made used of the dockingstation and i always removed the battery beforehand to protect it.

But to be honest, meanwhile i prefer the mac pro.

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