I want to buy a new laptop for .Net Programming
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Hi, I want to buy a new laptop for .Net Programming and I'm trying to figure out what's the best for my case. What's your laptop model and configuration are you using and if you would change, what laptop and configuration would you have? Maybe I get the Dell XPS 13 with a i7 4500U / 8Gb RAM 1600 Mhz / 256Gb SSD, what you think?
I got a new Latitude 7440 (I7, 8GB memory, 256 GB HDD, 1920x1080) a month ago. And I can say that I was positively surpriced by two things:
- Batterytime, it lasts for 6-8 hours of procrastination, which is quite a lot more than at the best two hours on my old one.
- The SSD is ten times faster than the SSD in my old laptop. And then it was still an even bigger wow feeling to get the SSD on my old laptop.
Downsides:
- Came without DVD, and has only three USB connectors spaced out so that I can't use the external DVD that needs the power from two USB connectors
- Has text size set to a default of 120DPI, which is utterly stupid, because it means that the local IIS renders all text in images and such likes to 125% of the normal size. Fixed it through a registry setting.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]
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Hi, I want to buy a new laptop for .Net Programming and I'm trying to figure out what's the best for my case. What's your laptop model and configuration are you using and if you would change, what laptop and configuration would you have? Maybe I get the Dell XPS 13 with a i7 4500U / 8Gb RAM 1600 Mhz / 256Gb SSD, what you think?
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Hi, I want to buy a new laptop for .Net Programming and I'm trying to figure out what's the best for my case. What's your laptop model and configuration are you using and if you would change, what laptop and configuration would you have? Maybe I get the Dell XPS 13 with a i7 4500U / 8Gb RAM 1600 Mhz / 256Gb SSD, what you think?
I think that would do it. Also, I would search - there have been multitudes of threads.
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I agree. If the choice is between: more memory/bigger SSD with an i5 or: less memory/smaller SSD with an i7 then go for the i5 option. The processors these days are fast enough (certainly the i5) that the memory and disk bottlenecks are the biggest problems.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
Great observation!