Choosing a laptop for work is really very difficult. The easiest thing to do is to start with what you need from your laptop. If you are a programmer, a $1,000 laptop will do the job. In any case, I think that after you bought a laptop, you should also think about buying a laptop keyboard cover because it will help your laptop keyboard will remain in perfect condition much longer.

Currently use Aspire 4739 14" with Intel Core i3 and RAM 2 GB DDR3, keyboard doesn't function as it used to be so rolled up keyboard added + modem which I borrow from my friend (it's been 3 month or so).

This is'nt Vent.

13in Macbook Pro - Mid 2012 model, i5, 16gig ram, 480gig ssd, 1tb hd - Bootcamp'd to run both Win10 and OSX (I need both for my work).

13" Macbook Pro Base 256GB SSD and a 32" external monitor whenever I need it

Love the portability :D

I'm using an MSI GE72, but would opt for the Dell XP anyday for coding -not gaming. :>

I use a Mac even though I prefer using Linux, I want it easy for workmates to pair with me.

Lenovo W540 with i7, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD+1TB HDD and some nividia quadro graphics card.

Software side driven on Ubuntu 16.04.3 HWE enabled with i3 window manager.

When I have to work on Windows (some meanwhile rarely .Net development) i have a Windows 10 VM running on a Proxmox KVM on the company‘s cluster.

When our department is buying some new hardware next year I’m aiming for a powerful 12-13“ book (no MacBook) because the W540 with the large battery is a brick. Maybe the Lenovo X270 or Dell XPS13 full built up.

HP Laptop - Core i5, 8GB RAM, 2GB AMD Graphics, 1TB HDD. Dual boot with Windows 10 and Arch Linux with GNOME. Rarely use Windows (only for games).

At Home : 4 Years old , AMD A8 Hp Laptop with 4 Gigs of RAM, Windows 8.

Its sufficient for almost all programming tasks.

At work : Windows 8, Intel i5, 4 Gigs of RAM, Desktop

PS : No Fancy stuff

15" Macbook Pro (mid-2014), 2.2GHz Core i7 with 16GB RAM. But probably I would have preferred IT to have given me a 13-inch. I don't really need the power as most of the number crunching stuff is done on external servers.

I've had quite a few in the last 5 years, as I was never impressed or comfortable. I now have an 13" HP Spectre with 8 gigs of Ram, 256SSD and i7. It is an amazing machine considering it's small and a convertible tablet. At my office I use a Dell Latitude (company issued) with an i7 and 256SSD.

The SSD and late gen i7, at a minimum, have been the way to go for me.

Lenovo Yoga 510, with the RAM upgraded from 4 to 8 GB.

It’s not a power house, so to say, but I don’t really need that. I sometimes switch to road warrior mode, and in those cases, I need a flexible, easy to carry notebook. It can even be folded to be a tablet, which is extremely useful in some situations. If I need actual computing power, I login to our company infrastructure, which has a lot of CPU cores and RAM altogether.

As an OS, I use Fedora 26 with the GNOME desktop. Our development targets Linux machines (although production code runs on different Linux flavours), and I’m actually much more familiar with Linux than Windows or OS/X.

Depends on where I am. If I'm not at home, I've got a Mac Book Pro that I use; going on a year old. If I'm sequestered in my code cave, then I've got a custom rig I built running Win 10 on 16GB of RAM, a 3TB HDD, an Octa-core AMD processor clocking ~4GHz/core, and a modest vid card pushing display out to an LCD TV via HDMI and a smaller monitor on the side that I use for showing reference material, notes, stackoverflow searches, etc.

MI Notebook air 13.3

Intel Core i5-6200u Dual Core 2.3GHz, Up to 2.8GHz CPU, NVIDIA Geforce GT 940MX Integrated Graphics GPU, 8GB RAM + 256GB SATA SSD and Arch Linux <3

Does anyone use a Microsoft Surface Pro? I'm more of a PC tower kind of guy but was toying with the idea of getting a laptop for travel. So, not my primary development machine, but still capable.

The Surface seems kind of cool but I don't know a single person who owns one.

15" Toshiba Satellite running Windows 10. Bought it cheap ($450 USD) three years ago. 1TB HDD (not SDD, sadly), initially had 6GB RAM, but recently upgraded to 12GB... more than I need at this point. These days, I use this mainly as a dumb terminal since I VPN and RDP into a more powerful desktop at a remote location. When not working, it's a research tool and gaming machine (Intel Core i5, so not too bad with games I like).

All this said, I'm considering going down the Compute Stick route and/or a mini-pc. Look up "Intel NUC". These days, specs are pretty good on those and they're super small.

YESSS!!! Favorite subject! Haha.

I love my MSi GP72 6QF 17" laptop. It's got an Intel Core i7, it's actually built really well with solid materials (rare now adays it seems aside from Mac), it has 16GB of RAM upgradeable to 32, and it has an nVidia GTX960M. I also have a 256GB SSD in it and added another 1TB SSD as well.

The best part about it is it is extremely lightweight, nice looking, ergonomic, and powerful. It's very difficult to find a laptop which meets all of these. On top of that, I love the screen real estate and I love that it's an "anti-glare" screen rather than a glossy screen. Even more, it has an upgraded cooling system where when I'm working the processor (I do this all the time for my job since I analyze software and am constantly running giant jobs scanning for strings, encryption, etc...), I hit the button and it fires up a couple extra fans and runs them at high speed. It also has 6 added heat pipes. Despite all of that, this thing is only like maybe 2lbs/1kg or less basically. When I got this guy, I got it for only $1,000. An equivalent Mac at the time would have costed $2,500 LOL. I was like, yeah the trackpad on a Mac is better... But not $1,500 better.

I never understood the argument that a 17" laptop is "not portable." As far as I'm concerned, any laptop is portable. But maybe that's because I go to the gym and I used to work a job where I had to carry _real weight! _When I was in college, I carried one this big and about 3x as heavy on my back all day!

13 inch Macbook Pro base SSD (about 2 years old now)

With a 30 inch curved Dell IPS monitor if I need some additional room.

Powerful enough for web development / Photoshop / Illustrator / Xcode. Light enough to not be a PITA to carry to a coffee shop. I have 2 of them identical incase 1 fails.