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MilitantCro
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Hello guys and girls.

 

I started getting in to programming lately and i have been doing it on my main pc which has a i5 4670k and a r9 280. I am at the beginning stages and mostly learning java a c#.

When school starts again i will spend a lot of time from home but will have a lot of free time so i was looking in a laptop so i can learn a little while i am chilling in a cafee. But then it hit me since owning a gaming pc i didnt think about how powerful the laptop needs to be. will be using visual studio

 

So what to look in a laptop? will a i3 do it? or do i need a i5? ssd is a must have i belive. is intel HD graphics oke?

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Programming isn't too demanding unless you're doing something that requires a lot of power,and if you'd do that,you'd know.

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If your going to be traveling with it, to school and back, and want something with great battery life, and small compact form, the new MacBook Air is like $899 USD. Its got an i5 and flash storage. 

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If your going to be traveling with it, to school and back, and want something with great battery life, and small compact form, the new MacBook Air is like $899 USD. Its got an i5 and flash storage. 

Microsoft programs work on Macs? I prefer win 8.1 also in my country Apple products cost 2x as much.

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Microsoft programs work on Macs? I prefer win 8.1 also in my country Apple products cost 2x as much.

theres tons of programs to write in java on the mac. 

 

Some references: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr04/cos126/hello/mac.html

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Java/Conceptual/Java14Development/00-Intro/JavaDevelopment.html

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I'd recommend something with no less than 4 physical cores and no less than 4GB of RAM (larger if you'll be dealing with manual memory allocation because of the chance for memory leaks to occur)...

 

Also, for software compatibility, choose one which has the OS you intend your programs to run on...

Mutsuki:

CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink

eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM

Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU:  Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM

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Wow didn't see this coming.... That's pretty funny... What the hell Microsoft/Sony....

 

Umm... Wrong thread... I think??

Was this the one you were replying to?

Mutsuki:

CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink

eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM

Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU:  Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM

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Umm... Wrong thread... I think??

Was this the one you were replying to?

*facepalm* your right.... how in the hell did that happen.... to many tabs.... 

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If you are learning c# you need a microsoft pc, specs dont have to be that high, i3 or i5 will do, >6GB of ram to run more than comfortably and i prefer larger screens and resolutions when developing because of more real estate for the IDE.

Java on the other hand can be used on (pretty much) any OS so that is up to you.

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Before time began.. I was using intel e7500 with 4gb ram and hdd for VS 2008 and later 2010, I am confident that you can run VS 2013 + Resharper on a laptop with these specifications if you are not compiling any 100k+ line solutions. VS and Resharper are cpu hungry at startup, but 1-2 minutes after you start VS you won't have any problems. Of Course if you are not on a budget you can buy something more powerful.

 

If you need to use java this specification still apply, I don't know about eclipse but intellij idea is not very hungry application so the only thing you have to worry about is compiling. Java compiles slightly longer because of some optimizations, but you will be ok.

 

This is the minimum : some good 2 core cpu, 4gb ram, as big display as you can get. If you get your hands on an ssd it will be great, but it's not mandatory.

 

If you need to use ms languages like c# then you have to use windows, this mono sh*t is not for everyone, believe me.

Bad spelling, can't help it.

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