Hello all, my stupid Acer (AMD Chip) laptop burnt out few weeks ago and I am looking for a decent laptop.
I am developer working with scripting in Ruby, Python and R; Rails, RStudio, VIM / Sublime Text, Angular JS, Apache/Nginx, MySQL/ PostGreSQL/ MongoDB and odd other tools, technologies and languages. E.g., I recently started learning Prolog just for fun. Besides, Youtubing, watching movies and reading PDFs; some documentation using MS Word (yeah I know lame, but gotta to feed myself).
This time I do not want to shell out loads of money, and was just curious if I will be okay with i3 (4th gen) with 8GB or do I need atleast i5?
I used to dual-boot but this time I was thinking of using Vagrant + Chef with Arch on Windows for my development work. Will this be any slow because I mostly just watch movies, read stuff and do dev work when required. I guess the only thing I will miss on Windows will be VIM with all the plugins I use.
Any help/input is appreciated.
P.S.: I am from India