Laptop for programming course

[FrostieCooky]

So next school year I'm stating a course in application development and I need a laptop up to their minimum required specs. I'm in a bit of a tight spot money wise, so I really need the best value I can get.
What's the cheapest laptop with a quadcore I7, 16gb of ram, any size ssd (I'll probably use a cloud for mass storage) and optionally a decent keyboard and a screen that doesn't reflect light too much. The last two are not required, and neither is the ssd really, but the first two are minimum requirements for the course.
My budget isn't much higher than 1000 EU

[Thias.TG]

Lenovo ThinkPad life

[FrostieCooky]

Just now, MathiasVN said:

Lenovo ThinkPad life

I've been looking at those but only the very recent 8th gen I7 ones are actually quad core. They're quite expensive.

[Thias.TG]

2 minutes ago, FrostieCooky said:

I've been looking at those but only the very recent 8th gen I7 ones are actually quad core. They're quite expensive.

I7 Machines are expensive, I would recommend looking into a high-end I5

[FrostieCooky]

1 minute ago, MathiasVN said:

I7 Machines are expensive, I would recommend looking into a high-end I5

Unfortunately, I7 quad cores are mandatory. Hyper-threading is kinda a thing we'll need.

[Thias.TG]

2 minutes ago, FrostieCooky said:

Unfortunately, I7 quad cores are mandatory. Hyper-threading is kinda a thing we'll need.

I would look into something like: https://www.cnet.com/products/dell-inspiron-5770-17-3-core-i7-8550u-16-gb-ram-2-tb-hdd-english/specs/

 

Prob the cheapest somewhat quality I7 Laptop (Buy seperate SSD or find one with SSD)

[genexis_x]

1 hour ago, MathiasVN said:

I would look into something like: https://www.cnet.com/products/dell-inspiron-5770-17-3-core-i7-8550u-16-gb-ram-2-tb-hdd-english/specs/

Inspiron 5000 series is entry level, cheaped out in overall build quality

1 hour ago, FrostieCooky said:

quadcore I7, 16gb of ram, any size ssd (I'll probably use a cloud for mass storage) and optionally a decent keyboard and a screen that doesn't reflect light too much. The last two are not required, and neither is the ssd really, but the first two are minimum requirements for the course.
My budget isn't much higher than 1000 EU

Asus Zenbooks (keyboard is OKish)

HP Envy/Spectre line

Lenovo Ideapad 720S/Yoga 720 13

Dell XPS 13

 

In some cases RAM and SSD can be added after purchase.

Take note that i5 8250U and i7 8550U don't differ much in performance due to TDP limitation of ULV CPUs