What is a good laptop for programming,

I was looking for a good laptop for programming,
What size screen is good for programming,
I am now using a alienware 17 r2, but it is to heavy and to big to take to school
My requirement:
1. arround 15 inch (i think it is a good size, what i saw on google)
2. Not to heav arround 2 kilo.
3. under a 1000 euro
4. doesn't matter if it is used.
5. equal or better than a MX150 GPU
6. Not a gaming laptop, if possible a notebook

I saw a xiaomi mi notebook pro, it has all my requirement but it is a chinese brand,
I want a brand like HP, dell, asus.

hope you guys can help me out.

What do you plan to develop? For a game development you will need a really good specs.

Lenovo ThinkPad E470 is decent, a friend has it. Good battery life as well.

Why you don't go for the Xiaomi? What're your doubt? I've only read good review about it and personally it's really a good choise. If you want more power, for that price tag,you should get a i7-7700HQ, 16Gb RAM, nVidia 1050 at least and a SSD

Mac OS X....Seriously the command line on a mac is the best

If it was me I'd get a laptop with long ass battery life with an ok CPU because I can get lost spending hours optimizing a small script.
Depends on what you are coding, of course. My preference is Acer/HP but I will never want to go back to flat-press, especially when coding for hours.

Acer Spin 5 i personally use it for multi purposes and good for coding aswell.

I’ve been a windows guy my whole life until I got my MacBook. As someone mentioned, terminal is really a game changer, so I would definitely recommend a macbook

Originally Posted by Blirm

I’ve been a windows guy my whole life until I got my MacBook. As someone mentioned, terminal is really a game changer, so I would definitely recommend a macbook

Windows has both powershell and classic command prompt options. What makes terminal better than either of these?

windows is not unix/linux based so compatibility and support with a lot of tools isn't the best. that being said, you can just dual boot linux on any pc, but personally I find macbook build quality massively superior to any competitor. I haven't had experience with the touchbar macs, but my old 2015 macbook pro retina was perfect for all my programming needs.

If you're doing web dev, all you really need is a beefy processor + 16+ gbs of ram. If you're doing game dev, you probably want a desktop as laptops with a decent gpu are quite pricy, and the cpu is always massively underpowered compared to desktop equivalent.

i have 100$ macbook 2010 from ebay and it's good enough for programming

Bought a refurbished Thinkpad X1 Carbon from ebay with £400 for university ( CS course) and it has been rock solid mate.
i7 5th generation , 8 gigs of Ram, SSD , Full hd screen and over 9 hours of battery life + best keyboard ever.

A MacBook is never a good Idea, not even if you want to use MacOSX instead of Windows or Linux.
Then Buy something with Intel Processor and install Hackintosh, you get better Hardware for less Money by it.
Anyways, alone the Terminal is absolutly no reasson to change from Windows to Mac.
Install Git or MobaXTerm and you have the same Terminal on Windows.
What i really would recommened is a Device which Supports at least 2 Screens and in my Oppinion this is the only reasson why a weak Raspberry Pie is not enough for Programming

Originally Posted by sautzer

I vote for Xiaomi too, this one is really nice and lightweight! I use it for java programming and for my everyday college assignments.

Originally Posted by MikeRohsoft

Mac's are decent to use for coding. You get XCode and it's easy to use.

What is a good laptop for programming,

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