Laptop; coding, web development recommendations

[Lukep123]

Hey,
I'm starting a course in comp sci this year and I've already done some coding on my current laptop (ASUS x550CA) but I often feel sluggish (Quite outdated now) and it's a pain to carry around.

I'm wondering if anyone else, doing similar courses or just in your free time (Mainly using eclipse, netbeans, visual studio, minor p/s editing) and in regards to web dev, running quite a lot of tabs, including filezilla and IDEs and my current laptop just isn't cut out for it.

Anyone have any recommendations or in a similar position?

I did some research and was intrigued by the Windows Surface, but the newer models pricing around $1300 seemed quite excessive.
My current laptop is also 15.6 inch, so I was thinking maybe around 12inch (Anyone recommend higher or lower?)

Thanks in advance

[EMENCII]

13" is quite a nice size.

Pretty much everything with an 8th gen intel or with a ryzen cpu will do fine. If you don't need more than 8GB of RAM you're gold.

Some suggestions: XPS13, HP ENVY/SPECTRE, Lenovo X1, Asus itself had some nice ones (UX331?), LG Gram, Samsung notebook 9.

 

[Lukep123]

33 minutes ago, EMENCII said:

13" is quite a nice size.

Pretty much everything with an 8th gen intel or with a ryzen cpu will do fine. If you don't need more than 8GB of RAM you're gold.

Some suggestions: XPS13, HP ENVY/SPECTRE, Lenovo X1, Asus itself had some nice ones (UX331?), LG Gram, Samsung notebook 9.

 

Thank you very much for the suggestions, I appreciate it.

[TLCH723]

I would suggest 15 inches for coding as it is easy to have two things open side by side

[genexis_x]

Preferred weight, display size and battery life?

[Lukep123]

On 17/08/2018 at 3:12 AM, ZM Fong said:

Preferred weight, display size and battery life?

Hey. I was hoping for quite a small laptop, possibly around 13 (Like I said below 15 would be ideal but it just seems a bit too big).
In terms of the display, not that important.

The battery life however, is pretty important.

Most days I will be finding myself out at 10am'ish and returning around 4-5pm and using the laptop pretty much all day and on the way home. Something that, if you have any experience in regards, could be editting large software IDE applications and multi tasking with the browser open too.

I did look around, moreso and Linus reviews, and he seemed extremely impressed with the LG Gram, do you have experience with this device or a specific recommedation?

Thanks again!
 

On 17/08/2018 at 1:22 AM, TLCH723 said:

I would suggest 15 inches for coding as it is easy to have two things open side by side

I was more hoping for around 13inch. I wanted to be able to put it in a small bag easily and take up little space on lecture tables as they aren't very big at all, and I took my current 15inch to the open seminar and it was clunky and felt far too big for the small tables. At home I do use two monitors so I thought I'd struggle a little with a 13inch, but the 15inch is just unfortunately too big.

[genexis_x]

Could you list out all 13 inch laptops with 8250U/8550U CPU that are within your budget?

[TLCH723]

5 hours ago, Lukep123 said:

I was more hoping for around 13inch. I wanted to be able to put it in a small bag easily and take up little space on lecture tables as they aren't very big at all, and I took my current 15inch to the open seminar and it was clunky and felt far too big for the small tables. At home I do use two monitors so I thought I'd struggle a little with a 13inch, but the 15inch is just unfortunately too big.

15 inches with slim bezel?

[Lukep123]

12 hours ago, ZM Fong said:

Could you list out all 13 inch laptops with 8250U/8550U CPU that are within your budget?

 

Hey,
The ones I have been looking at roughly so far (Mainly from some research and Linus's laptop reviews are;

https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/dell-xps-13-9370-core-i5-8250u-8gb-256gb-ssd-13.3-inch-windows-10-professio-tcf22/version.asp#/specs
 

https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/new-apple-macbook-pro-core-i5-2.3ghz-128gb-13-inch-laptop-space-grey-mpxq2b-a/version.asp
 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/surface-pro/8nkt9wttrbjk/HN2J
 

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/lg-gram-13z980-13-intel-core-i5-laptop-256-gb-ssd-silver-10182481-pdt.html

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B076KPYXZK/ref=dp_ob_neva_mobile

 

The budget is roughly around 1100 to 1200 British Pounds

 

[genexis_x]

All the options above are good, however personally I wouldn't recommend Surface (reliability concerns) and Macbook (unless you need macOS)

 

Also take a look at Yoga 720/730 13, Ideapad 720s 13 (Intel), Yoga 920, Thinkpad Yoga

[Lukep123]

5 hours ago, ZM Fong said:

All the options above are good, however personally I wouldn't recommend Surface (reliability concerns) and Macbook (unless you need macOS)

 

Also take a look at Yoga 720/730 13, Ideapad 720s 13 (Intel), Yoga 920, Thinkpad Yoga

Thanks for the help, I will take a look at these now, thanks again!