good, fast laptop for coding / web surfing etc

[supermousie]

Re: good, fast laptop for coding / web surfing etc

web surfing and coding eh?

Get a netbook or something you noob. Hell you might as well get an iPad. You should order a pink tutu to go with it too.

O.

[Reincarnate]

Re: good, fast laptop for coding / web surfing etc

D:

[Evnoir]

Re: good, fast laptop for coding / web surfing etc



Wat.

[DJMAYYYNE]

Re: good, fast laptop for coding / web surfing etc

lmfao

[ninjaKIWI]

Re: good, fast laptop for coding / web surfing etc

web surfing and coding eh?

Get a netbook or something you noob. Hell you might as well get an iPad. You should order a pink tutu to go with it too.

I would have said this but I figured you should at least get something that isn't worthless.

[DJMAYYYNE]

Re: good, fast laptop for coding / web surfing etc

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230100

[supermousie]

Re: good, fast laptop for coding / web surfing etc



But seriously, coding? Just get a cheap laptop from the bargain bin.

[Evnoir]

Re: good, fast laptop for coding / web surfing etc

Back on topic, I wouldn't get a netbook (from personal experience).
My netbook sometimes has trouble surfing the net lmao - it's p. much a worthless PoS.

Netbooks would've been out anyways since the topic here is 'good, fast' laptops, not 'barely adequate, slow as f**k' netbooks.

[Crashfan3]

Re: good, fast laptop for coding / web surfing etc

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834230100

I dunno what Reincarnate's price range is, but plopping $1400 on a laptop for coding and websurfing sounds like overkill.

As for netbooks... uh, just get a small laptop instead if you need something really portable.
My sister bought this one in the late summer for her senior year of high school ( http://www.staples.com/Samsung-Serie...product_344162 ) and she loves it. Processor's semi-decent (really low-end i3). Don't pay $700 for it though. Wait for a sale, my sis got hers for $530.

[Reincarnate]

Re: good, fast laptop for coding / web surfing etc

I see no reason to drop a grand on this thing -- maybe a couple hundred. It doesn't need to be souped up -- just decent enough for programming and fast enough to process at a high rate.

[Izzy]

Re: good, fast laptop for coding / web surfing etc

I love my netbook and it has no problems running IDE's and browsing the web. Pushing its limits would be watching 720p videos and running n64 / ps1 emulators. The thing is great for the price and size though. I have the last generation of the ACER netbook. 10.1 inches, 1.6 ghz atom proccesor and 2gb of ram.

If you wanted something slightly more powerful you should get something in the 13 inch ranch.

[Reincarnate]

Re: good, fast laptop for coding / web surfing etc

I'm primarily coding in C#/C++/Python/maybe dicking around in Flash/HTML/PHP/blahblah

[Reincarnate]

Re: good, fast laptop for coding / web surfing etc

How's this?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215206

EDIT: Pulled the trigger on this one

[TheNoSoMan]

Re: good, fast laptop for coding / web surfing etc

I'd say go for it, assuming you're not gonna play GPU-intensive games on there or smash the keyboard into pieces.

But I still have my doubts on those Asian OEMs.

[Evnoir]

Re: good, fast laptop for coding / web surfing etc

How's this?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215206

EDIT: Pulled the trigger on this one

Good choice, especially for $500.

IIRC, the only thing that I found as a real flaw for that laptop was the screen. I can't really explain it well, but it seems blurry if you scroll through super high contrast images...?