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People of devRant, I need your help! I am finally buying a new laptop - ive been using a Dell N4140 for the past 4 years and I absolutely love it. But it's about time to retire the machine and upgrade.

I'm a programmer, I don't play games and haven't used windows in the last 2 years. Im looking for a 4-8GB RAM under $1000K. I plan to replace the HDD with an SSD. 13' is too small a screen and i feel 15.6' is slightly on the large side. I have a 21' external monitor anyway. My old dell was 14' and i loved it. And looks really matter for me. Alsooo, I dislike having a number pad. Its useless for me.

I know I'm picky. I can't afford a MacBook right now (about to graduate from university), but if you could help me in finding the right laptop, I'd be really grateful!

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  • 1
    8y
    You can buy any laptop with 1000k.
    Look for the Sage NP9873-S. You can also get the MSI Titan but i don't like tge keyboard
  • 0
    8y
    @Pgdevpatryk the Sager costs double my budget! Also, it's a gaming laptop- I'm not looking for a gaming laptop. Something programming specific that's all!
  • 2
    8y
    @crearo you said 1000k.
  • 2
    8y
    I just need to mention that K stands for thousand, so 1000K is actually a million.
  • 0
    8y
    @BartBB Exactly
  • 0
    8y
    Hahahaha :D I made a mistake! Forgive, forgive :D one thousand dollars, yes.
  • 0
    8y
    What sort of programming do you do, is it CPU heavy?
  • 0
    8y
    @crearo Dell Inspiron series
  • 0
    8y
    @drRoss
    I do mobile app dev, i use both Android studio and react-native (both super CPU intensive) and do a little bit of lower level non-cpu-intensive c programming for hardware. I work on linux.

    I have a Dell Inspiron 14R right now. If it was still in production, I'd have bought the same computer again. Sadly, the newer models are very heavy and just too big.
  • 0
    8y
    @crearo I would suggest buying a razer blade stealth and paying it off monthly.
  • 0
    8y
    Dude no joke buy the x220 Thinkpad off of eBay.

    costs $170 and may be about five years old but it still has specs equal to or greater than a lot of new computers and it's made to last.

    Plus everything is replaceable with ease and you can upgrade any part of it as it needs to be.

    Can even run Mac OS perfectly if you want it too (imho better than most Macs can).
  • 0
    8y
    @macleod I tend to think these won't be that portable though?

    Will it move around at all?
  • 0
    8y
    @drRoss Extremely portable.
  • 0
    8y
    @macleod Screen size, resolution?
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