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Best laptop for programmer and web developer with good battery life ?

Rohit-Sthapit | Asked 10 months ago | Last response was 10 months ago

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I am a programmer, web developer and a student too ... I need a perfect laptop with good battery life, considerable price.

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10 months ago Steve-Hanov
A desktop, and not a laptop, is ideal. But if you really need portability, you should look for as large a screen as you can, and a comfortable keyboard. I used the EEE-PC 1000H for a long time, thinking I would just get used to it. But it is always cramped and uncomfortable to use.
Since you're programming, you can skimp on the CPU. Nowadays I use a Dell Inspiron 6400 which is about 5 years old. After I maxed out the memory with a second DIMM, it runs the latest Ubuntu and all of my development tools with absolutely no problems.
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  10 months ago Philip-Davis
  
  Good call on the CPU. No need for quad i7 unless you're compiling Scala ;)
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  9 months ago Brandon-Shindler
  
  those Inspiron last forever. i Have a 1200 and it works perfect.
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10 months ago Philip-Davis

There's no such thing as a perfect laptop. As a programmer, I'd suggest you get one with the largest screen you can afford. My first laptop was 15.6" and I hated programming on it. My current laptop is a 17" model and it's a little bit nicer.
Also, the larger models tend to have nicer keyboard layouts. It's super important that you like the keyboard. I actually went into a local computer store and tried typing a few lines of code to see how each keyboard felt.
You might also want to look into one with an SSD drive for better performance.

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