Hi guys
I want to buy a laptop for programming,
but I couldn't figure out what i really want .
my budget range from 600$ to 1200 .
I found these laptops in the market
(i3 - 4g ram - 256 giga ssd) for 600$
(i5 - 8g ram - 512 giga ssd) for 800$
(i7 - 16g ram - 512 giga ssd) for 1200$
and also ryzen 3 5 and 7 .
here what I want you to Know :
1- I want to use this laptop for programming only (and browser of course),
2 - I will programming for android (for now ),that's mean i need to install android studio , IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse (maybe other).
so I'm afraid if I buy 1200$ laptop i will regret it , because don't need that much ram or cores or ssd capacity.
and if i buy 600$ i will regret it too ,because it will be too slow or not ideal for programming,less ram -less capacity -less core
I was depressing for long time and I'm slowly back on track
so i don't know what going on ( on tech world).
and also there are laptop 2 in 1 (laptop and tablet) with pen,
is it worth to buy ?.
dose the laptop now upgrade-able in terms of ram ,
saying this because of what going on in part replacement issue (like apple ).
so help please what should I buy.
pardon my English not my first Language,
and thanks in advance.
Edit : thank you guys very much ,
that's really help and very informative. ๐ ๐
Be careful with the Intel laptop chips and make sure you understand what you're getting. My work laptop has an i7 with 12 "cores" but it's 10 of the low powered e-cores and 2 of the hyperthreaded p- cores, so for heavy applications (like compiling) it's a glorified dual core i3.
Yeah, my current one is 11th gen, just before they started doing that, so I don't know how good or bad the "efficiency" cores are or if the power savings is worth it.