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glenn romaniuk
glenn romaniuk
32,520 Points
Posted by glenn romaniuk
glenn romaniuk
32,520 Points

new dev laptop spec advice

I want to purchase a new laptop for development work. Could be used for web development, angular, node.js, mongo, android studio, swift, etc. I want 2 machines 1) apple 2) windows. what do your recommend i purchase.

2 Answers

jason chan
jason chan
31,009 Points
jason chan
jason chan
31,009 Points

Just get an apple. You can install windows on apple with vm software or you can dual boot.

i5 8gb and ssd should be totally fine.

Mark Truitt
Mark Truitt
17,230 Points
Mark Truitt
Mark Truitt
17,230 Points

This is one of those personal preference questions.

I personally own multiple devices. Though, I hate emulating when doing device/browser testing because I've found over time that there can still be issues even I use something else to view that device.

For Windows I personally went with a Lenovo ideapad y700 specs: Intell i7 with 16gb and dedicated graphics. Though I do tend to do some graphics/video work. This is more than powerful enough to run just about anything you would need and then some.

Mac I have found to be a little easier to setup development on overall but just slightly. Personally, I prefer to go with 16 gb for ram vs 8 but I also tend to run quite a bit at once.