Best laptop for Visual Studio & SQL Server Standard

[Zackwolf]

Hi all. 

 

We are a development company and are looking for recommendations on laptops for our developers.  

 

We develop asp.net applications in visual studio and use SQL server 2014 standard usually. 

 

We currently use older lenovo x1 carbons but are looking for replacements. 

 

Disk speed, ram is important to us as some of our sql dbs hit 100+ gb in size. 

 

Cheers

zack

 

[FlappyBoobs]

Why do you want your developers to use laptops? Desktops are more powerful, more upgrade able and offer a better development experience and that in turns gives you a happier, more productive team.

 

Laptops for developers is the biggest red flag for a company culture that I absolutely hate, and I've walked out of plenty of places that started giving out laptops. 

 

As a veteran developer you can pry the Xeon out of my cold dead hands before you will ever get me to use a laptop in the office. 

[genexis_x]

Location? Budget? Any preference on weight and battery life?

[Zackwolf]

Thanks for the reply.  Location New Zealand.  No real budget, just looking for sort of midrange pricing. Mid to long battery would be good as we do often work at customers sites so would be handy. 

[Zackwolf]

11 hours ago, FlappyBoobs said:

Why do you want your developers to use laptops? Desktops are more powerful, more upgrade able and offer a better development experience and that in turns gives you a happier, more productive team.

 

Laptops for developers is the biggest red flag for a company culture that I absolutely hate, and I've walked out of plenty of places that started giving out laptops. 

 

As a veteran developer you can pry the Xeon out of my cold dead hands before you will ever get me to use a laptop in the office. 

Thanks yeah we have desktops at the office for a lot of our developers.  However the ones that travel alot to customer sites are the ones looking for the upgrade. They use them mainly for small development and bug fixing. Data fixes etc while travelling or with customers on location.  

 

Ability to compile to deliver code fixes and also ability to run things like redgate sql compare to generate sql deltas etc is what we are after. 

[KuJoe]

Based on my limited experience, Lenovo laptops tend to have some of the fastest non-RAID NVMe drives that come standard with most of their products (last I checked they were using Samsung drives). Compared to my HP Elitebook that I use for work, my X1 Carbon blows it out of the water in terms of disk IO in CrystalDiskMark and in real world usage even though they're both NVMe drives.

[Zackwolf]

4 hours ago, KuJoe said:

Based on my limited experience, Lenovo laptops tend to have some of the fastest non-RAID NVMe drives that come standard with most of their products (last I checked they were using Samsung drives). Compared to my HP Elitebook that I use for work, my X1 Carbon blows it out of the water in terms of disk IO in CrystalDiskMark and in real world usage even though they're both NVMe drives.

Awesome thanks.  Have been looking at the latest razer blade stealth too. How are they placed drive wise ?

[genexis_x]

7 hours ago, Zackwolf said:

Mid to long battery

Min how many hours? Also, no preference on weight?

[Zackwolf]

16 hours ago, GeneXiS_X said:

Min how many hours? Also, no preference on weight?

Approx 6+ if possible.  As they travel a bit the lighter the better.  

[genexis_x]

On 6/2/2019 at 5:21 AM, Zackwolf said:

As they travel a bit the lighter the better.  

Max weight in kg/lbs?

 

Any links of online stores?