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If you don't care about a bad (VGA) webcam, check out the Asus ZenBook 13 UX331UN ( https://www.asus.com/Laptops/ASUS-ZenBook-13-UX331UN/overvie... ). Pretty decent hardware, looks good, runns smooth, pretty "cheap".
> Performance of the computer is quite important for me. I'm an Android developer, compilation of a big project I'm working on takes enormous amount of RAM and CPU nowadays (with new Android Studio it's even worse). Buy a powerful desktop PC and you’ll have a few bucks left over. Seriously, I don’t understand why developers continue to shortchange themselves by using laptops for heavy workloads. If you have to work a…
This implies your orgamization allows remote desktop
If I were buying a development machine for myself for under $2K, I would get the cheapest 27" 5K iMac with 16GB of RAM - quad core i5 3.4Ghz.
Why futz with Linux for development when you get an iMac? You get the benefits of not having to deal with Linux and the oddities Of HiDPI support and you get a Unix environment (OS X is certified Unix).
I would probably spend $2600 to get 32GB RAM and 2TB fusion drive.
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I had a similar problem with an HP ProBook 650 that I bought a few years ago. The laptop was reasonable in most ways, but the matte screen is so dim that it's barely usable.
it's really not dim, it's just that they f* with dark images to save battery.
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> If you’re installing Linux, that wipes out software bugs Linux would address OS bugs, and it brings bugs of its own. All your applications also could be exploited. > Intel’s Management Engine That and other pre-boot subsystems are exploitable by adversaries.
Nothing you said is specific to Lenovo.
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Surprisingly, both engineers on the 2560x1440 are happy! They run Ubuntu with a second screen at their desks (27” 2560x1440 external monitors). I’m actually the one that’s unhappy because their font size is too small for me to see when pairing ;) BTW I think 2560x1440 may not be high enough to technically be considered HiDPI?
As someone with a 2560x1440 (27”) display at work and a 5120x2880 (27”) display at home, the former is very much not HiDPI, not even close :)
> Performance of the computer is quite important for me. I'm an Android developer, compilation of a big project I'm working on takes enormous amount of RAM and CPU nowadays (with new Android Studio it's even worse). Buy a powerful desktop PC and you’ll have a few bucks left over. Seriously, I don’t understand why developers continue to shortchange themselves by using laptops for heavy workloads. If you have to work a…
I am a person who joined the Windows team at Microsoft in early 90s. So I am as far from am Apple fanboy as you get. So believe me when I say there is NO alternative to the MBP if the touchpad is critical to your usage. If your dont care about the touchpad then there are many
But if one wants a keyboard that's usable one has to steer away from the latest MBPs :/