Ask HN: What's the best laptop for development now?

Re:Ask HN: What's the best laptop for development now? by limeblack on Thursday June 15, 2017 @01:45PM (#14562580)

The T model thinkpads meet your criteria. If you want something cheap but works buy an older Thinkpad model(If you don't mind Ebay you can buy them really cheap there).

If you want future upgradability and don't mind spending more I would get Thinkpad p50. It supports up to 64gb of RAM(Yes I know you didn't say you wanted lots of RAM or a 15 in screen).

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best laptop for development now? by 12s12m on Friday June 16, 2017 @06:05AM (#14567724)

I just bought a refurbished T430 for my sister. These things are built like tanks. Because of the enterprise usage patterns there are many good refurbished laptops available for sale.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best laptop for development now? by 8draco8 on Friday June 16, 2017 @06:11AM (#14567741)

I am rocking X230 after two years with MBP and it is excellent, but I have soft spot for Thinkpads as my first laptop was good old IBM T23. Great laptops, very well build, supports Linux out of the box and fantastic upgradability. Battery life is also very good, plus since X240 it is possible to change external battery without turning off the laptop which is handy.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best laptop for development now? by NumberCruncher on Thursday June 15, 2017 @03:00PM (#14563354)

I bought lately a refurbished T430 with 512 GB SSD and 16 GB RAM on Amazon after reading about it on HN. It works fine.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best laptop for development now? by rpcope1 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:19PM (#14562948)

As someone with a P50, I've been really really impressed with it, even though 64GB has been pretty overkill. I just wish I could have gotten it with a 4k screen instead of just HD.

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