On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 2:45 PM, David Skinner <[email protected]> wrote: > I've used macs in the past, but never owned my own laptop. If I got a > macbook, what should I look for? If I go windows-based, does anyone have > any good recommendations for a brand?
You should first decide on your OS first. You've used Macs, did you like it? They are quite different from both Windows and Linux. Only after you decide on your OS should you look into hardware options. Mac OSX: Choose an Apple laptop (period). Heavy dev with VMs, MBP of some sort. Light dev, perhaps mostly cloud instances, MBA. Windows: I prefer Dell or Lenovo, the business class ones. Your options are quite wide open though. Even an Apple laptop will run Windows... Linux: I still like Dell or Lenovo, but you must pay attention to driver support. Some models are terrible, mostly stay in the upper end. Perhaps consider fully supported laptops like the Dell XPS Developer Edition, System76, etc. _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
