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[Codymm03]

I have been shopping for a laptop that will be primarily be used for Programming (Low level stuff in DOS Box or Virtual Machines), and school stuff. I was looking at the $1000 price point and hoping for expand ability. I found the Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming and was curious what you guys thought. I was planning on adding at least  8 more GB of ram or more and maybe an SSD depending on how slow the hard drive.

[Himommies]

1 minute ago, Codymm03 said:

Programming

Can you do that on a mac

[Codymm03]

4 minutes ago, Himommies said:

Can you do that on a mac

I could but it would probably not be the same amount of horses 

[Himommies]

2 minutes ago, Codymm03 said:

Not mentally, I mean you could run it all in a VM, is there a good mac for this purpose.

It doesn't sound too demanding so the cheapest Macbook Air maybe.I know it would be better for the school work part

[GeorgeDouj88]

How much SSD and HDD are you looking for because if I was gonna buy a gaming laptop anytime soon I would get one of the Asus ROG G-something and there are so many different models depending on what you want and they're really good and thin and everything. Would definitely recommend it and my friend actually has one and it's great.

[GeorgeDouj88]

Actually, I was doing some research and I don't think the Asus laptops are cheap anymore and I think you should stick to an Dell inspiron.

[Codymm03]

5 minutes ago, G3ORG3Douj88 said:

Actually, I was doing some research and I don't think the Asus laptops are cheap anymore and I think you should stick to an Dell inspiron.

Yeah I came to the same conclusion.

[genexis_x]

1 hour ago, Codymm03 said:

I have been shopping for a laptop that will be primarily be used for Programming (Low level stuff in DOS Box or Virtual Machines), and school stuff. I was looking at the $1000 price point and hoping for expand ability. I found the Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming and was curious what you guys thought. I was planning on adding at least  8 more GB of ram or more and maybe an SSD depending on how slow the hard drive.

Good choice

[Stagea]

2 hours ago, Codymm03 said:

I have been shopping for a laptop that will be primarily be used for Programming (Low level stuff in DOS Box or Virtual Machines), and school stuff. I was looking at the $1000 price point and hoping for expand ability. I found the Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming and was curious what you guys thought. I was planning on adding at least  8 more GB of ram or more and maybe an SSD depending on how slow the hard drive.

It should do the job. The HDD will definitely be a damper on response.

 

Here's an alternative with 16 GB RAM and an SSD:

https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Predator-GeForce-Backlit-G3-571-77QK/dp/B06Y4GZS9C