Hi guys, what specs do your coding laptop has? I would especially like to know if your laptop has a dedicated graphic card or an integrated one.

Mine has an i7, 32gb of ram, 500gb m2 SSD and an integrated graphic chip.

i5 2.5Ghz (3.5 Turbo)

16GB RAM DDR4

FullHD 15.6" display

Dedicated GeForce 1060

SSD NVMe Drive running Kubuntu

I don't need anything special. What I find critical in a coding laptop is at least 16GB of ram (8 can get limiting fast with modern IDEs and containerization)

I do some gaming, some machine learning and some video encoding so a dedicated graphics card is a must. Even a lower tier one is a big time saver for me.

Imho buying a laptop to run games or doing computation (e.g. CUDA / ML / ...) is wrong.

Integrated graphics as it has the benefit of a lower thermal footprint, less watt usage and hence it will be more durable and long-loving.

The trouble with large displays should be mentioned too, I think - starts at roughly 14 - 15 inch, the chassis and frame really need to be perfect to accommodate for a large screen and - surprise - most of the time they suck bonkers.

Broken hinges, display that can be easily pressed down on the keyboard and breaks et cetera.

Hence I like a high end, small and portable notebook. Anti glare display, easily maintainable, good keyboard.

My current one is... 6 years old I think.

Business HP 840 G3 notebook tailored to my needs.

Still runs like a champ.

Was expensive - but most suppliers like HP have all the parts available, yet only offer combinations which are shitty. XD

@Hazarth Pretty much this with i7 and Manjaro. Though my work laptop doesn't have dedicated graphics.

Literally same specs as you. Radeon pro 555x

MacBook Pro, best specs, provided by the company.

Mine the same specs as yours. MacBook Pro 13” i7 32 giggity bytes and 512 SSD. Before I had an i9.

@IntrusionCM except when you stream your desktop to it 😁 moonlight works well.

I've grown accustomed to using visual studio on my pc too via rdp because I'm lazy. Surface book has enough trouble running windows and teams lol.

I found that my uberspecced work (dell) laptop has double the compile times a decent vm on our vm host has. I don't see why I would waste time.

@jkommeren I cannot decipher what you want to tell me xD

@jkommeren @IntrusionCM
https://moonlight-stream.org/ referring to first paragraph lol to "use" your laptop for gaming . But I guess you said it too ( get a desktop to run it on)

Nevermind, long day.

@jkommeren

I only knew moonlight as I think the Linux opensourxe implementation for Silverlight / MS.

😆 Which is deeeeeeeaddddd....

Yeah. Compilation of software should be done on a workstation.

As I'm running Gentoo, I know the burden of compilation :)

And on a Laptop this isn't really a bright idea. Thermal throttling will definitely kill it.

@IntrusionCM haha didn't know silverlight made it to Linux. Nice!