I'm have been looking at code editors for my new laptop. Buying a new laptop very exciting!
I was looking at either a Samsung series 7 ultra book or and macbook air. Both very nice laptop full of tech, good speed and plenty of power but both about a grand!
Looked at a couple of other options but still felt drawn to the macbook air. If I want to develop apple apps then mac is a must but at this stage I'm learning so spend so much on a bit of kit I am unlikely to use is pointless.
I found a great alternative on ebay however, a two year old lenovo thinkpad t410. Now thinking two year old laptop is out of date already but this is an ex business lease laptop so has 128gb ssd, 8GB ram and around 5ghz from its processor.
This lead me on to my next series of posts, I'm going to review some code editors.
Stay tuned!
I think it will all come down to how you're gonna be using the laptop. You mentioned that you were planning on developing apple applications, rigth? Do you know that you can do that on Windows laptops using Bootcamp? Although, using OS X is still safer and better, in my opinion. Anyway, the Lenovo thinkpad sounds good as well. You should try and check if the previous owner upgraded his graphics card, if you're thinking of playing games at least.
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I wasn't aware I could develop apple applications with bootcamp. The Lenovo has been ordered and on its way. The graphics should play StarCraft 2 with no problem, this be the only game I'd play on it anyway. Thanks for you comment i'll look more into bootcamp.
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