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Discussion on: Laptops... How much computing power does a dev *really* need?

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Andreas Jakof • Edited

Trust me... you need more!
As a developer you will always hit the point, where you ask yourself "I thought this thing was fast?!".
So buy the heaviest machine (oomph, not actual weight) with the maximum RAM you can put in and at least (LEAST) 256 GB SSD.
Some bigger projects using GIT and node.js with some npm-packages.... there goes the disk space.

So no matter what, you will need more. But do yourself a favour and make it an i7, at least 16 GB of RAM and 256 GB SSD.