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I have tried, and failed, trying to find the best laptop that provides a keyboard you can work on for hours at a time, and a screen that you provides substantial amount of real-estate.

 

I tested out the Dell XPS 15, but it was too big to fit on a table in the airplane and too big to carry around, battery was drained well to quick.

 

I want to hear what you guys have had good experiences with, what laptop do you use? What is portable, has 16 GB ram, 4+ cores, 500 GB storage, 14 inch or less. Anything above that is not portable enough.

 

I will be using it on flights (London to CPH and back), and coding in airports, trains etc.

 

I mainly program in PHP, C and Lua.

 

What do you code on, what can you recommend?

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Surface book?

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I do Pascal and C++ and some Java too

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2 minutes ago, dexxterlab97 said:

I do Pascal and C++ and some Java too

I had one of those, the kickstand fell off the table in the back in the airplane. So I trashed it.

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1 minute ago, 170698_1454180949 said:

I had one of those, the kickstand fell off the table in the back in the airplane. So I trashed it.

Some convertible maybe? 

If you don't mind touchscreen. They are small enough and portable to carry on

 

Lenovo Yoga 900, HP Spectre, ASUS Tbook

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Just now, dexxterlab97 said:

Some convertible maybe? 

If you don't mind touchscreen. They are small enough and portable to carry on

I would rather not, when I had the XPS 15 I never used the touch screen, so it just felt useless to have to begin with.

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I know people are going to hate me for saying it, but maybe a mac is a good idea. In addition to regular programming languages, you can test Swift, and it runs on Linux, giving you more access.

For windows laptops, I am currently using an HP Elitebook, with an i5 and 16gb RAM. Decent, but I am going to try upgrading to something with a better display/power soon, as it has a 1366p display and only 180GB of storage. A better, higher-end model of this may work for you.

I currently am learning Java.

Note that I'm a high school student, so my requirements are probably much different than most- I don't have much money to spend and this laptop is decent for my basic needs and basic programming.

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I recommend a thinkpad X carbon series workstation. It is really power efficient and small enough for an airplane table (i've done it before). Along with that, if you can splurge for a model with the intel Vpro workstation processor, it will be more than enough 

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2 minutes ago, 170698_1454180949 said:

I would rather not, when I had the XPS 15 I never used the touch screen, so it just felt useless to have to begin with.

Acer Predator 21x has mechanical keyboard. Yeah I know it won't fit but for information

 

HP Spectre is a great laptop for small size

Yoga from LEnovo is also worth looking at or check some of their ThinkPad too.

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2 minutes ago, akskl said:

I know people are going to hate me for saying it, but maybe a mac is a good idea. In addition to regular programming languages, you can test Swift, and it runs on Linux, giving you more access.

For windows laptops, I am currently using an HP Elitebook, with an i5 and 16gb RAM. Decent, but I am going to try upgrading to something with a better display/power soon, as it has a 1366p display and only 180GB of storage. A better, higher-end model of this may work for you.

I currently am learning Java.

Note that I'm a high school student, so my requirements are probably much different than most- I don't have much money to spend and this laptop is decent for my basic needs and basic programming.

Thanks for the input, I will have a look at it!

 

Just now, gtx1060=value said:

I recommend a thinkpad X carbon series workstation. It is really power efficient and small enough for an airplane table (i've done it before). Along with that, if you can splurge for a model with the intel Vpro workstation processor, it will be more than enough 

Does it come with the famous Lenovo keyboard?

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Just now, 170698_1454180949 said:

Thanks for the input, I will have a look at it!

 

Does it come with the famous Lenovo keyboard?

yes, the og IBM thinkpad keyboard with the red rubber thingy in the middle and red buttons

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1 minute ago, gtx1060=value said:

yes, the og IBM thinkpad keyboard with the red rubber thingy in the middle and red buttons

Sexy, will add it into consideration! I am likely going to wait until Dell hopefully refreshes their lineup with Kabylake, and see what Linus thinks of the new XPS 13.

 

Just now, Kevinhkn said:

I found this, but I have no idea on how the keyboard feels :/

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t460p/?sb=:00000025:00003DE6:

It has a i7 6820hq

16 ram 512 gb ssd sata3

gtx940mx

and its 14 inch 1440p, is 14 inch too big?

 

I did consider that, but its quite thick. Nice IO though :D

 

Just now, akskl said:

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Get outta here! Lenovo makes some of the best business class laptops in the world.

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1 minute ago, akskl said:

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You might be a little too young to know the feeling of the original ibm thinkpad keyboard

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Just now, 170698_1454180949 said:

Sexy, will add it into consideration! I am likely going to wait until Dell hopefully refreshes their lineup with Kabylake, and see what Linus thinks of the new XPS 13.

 

I did consider that, but its quite thick. Nice IO though :D

 

Get outta here! Lenovo makes some of the best business class laptops in the world.

The T460p isn't the one i have, but the keyboard is the exact same and it has a great feeling. Just like the original ibm thinkpad keyboard. (i still have one from 1988 that still runs)

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Just now, 170698_1454180949 said:

Sexy, will add it into consideration! I am likely going to wait until Dell hopefully refreshes their lineup with Kabylake, and see what Linus thinks of the new XPS 13.

 

I did consider that, but its quite thick. Nice IO though :D

 

Get outta here! Lenovo makes some of the best business class laptops in the world.

Would you consider dual core hyperthreaded i7 or do you realy want the 4 cores

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Just now, Kevinhkn said:

Would you consider dual core hyperthreaded i7 or do you realy want the 4 cores

Personally, for programming, hyperthreaded is fine because you probably only run 1 or 2 vms at once at the most. For me, an intel Vpro works just fine with amazing speeds

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2 minutes ago, 170698_1454180949 said:

Sexy, will add it into consideration! I am likely going to wait until Dell hopefully refreshes their lineup with Kabylake, and see what Linus thinks of the new XPS 13.

 

I did consider that, but its quite thick. Nice IO though :D

 

Get outta here! Lenovo makes some of the best business class laptops in the world.

Me sitting here with an i3 5th gen and no dedicated gpu. It's an HP... 

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1 minute ago, gtx1060=value said:

The T460p isn't the one i have, but the keyboard is the exact same and it has a great feeling. Just like the original ibm thinkpad keyboard. (i still have one from 1988 that still runs)

Yeah, I got an old IBM ThinkPad T60 laying around, the keyboard and hardware still feels the same after all these years.

 

1 minute ago, Kevinhkn said:

Would you consider dual core hyperthreaded i7 or do you realy want the 4 cores

Well, I can't keep track of today's naming. Everything is an i7 apparently. I guess 2 cores + HT is fine :D

 

 

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