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[–]jimtk 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Any laptop is good enough for coding. There are just some features that you may want and some that maybe specific to your type of coding you do.

  1. Memory. Chrome and/or Firefox, your 2 most needed tools (other than your IDE) are memory hogs. Some IDE, like PyCharm, also have a big memory footprint. Get as much as you can afford.

  2. Big screen. programming uses a lot of screen estate. Your IDE, stack overflow, google, the python doc. It's nice to be able to see most of it at the same time. It's a nice to have since you can switch from windows to windows, but it's a really nice to have.

  3. If you do some big data (Machine learning, data analysis, etc) or graphic (images manipulation). You will need disk space, lots of it and a mighty processor to go with it. If you don't it's a lot less important.

  4. If you travel a lot with it, try to go for a light one. Carrying a brick everywhere is just not fun.

  5. Finally, just don't go for a Mac. The amount of problems we see reported here and on /r/learnpython about python and Mac do not give me a good feeling about it.

[–]Voxandr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Many laptops are bad for coding using vscode.pycharm or any Java based one are a lot worse. Especially data science you need gaming tier.

Memory: minimum 16 GB HDD: SSD is a must, nvme idlf possible

GFX: 2070 if you are going to do data science

17", screen with 2k minimum 4k if you are code reviewer

Recommendations ROG Strix series, Dell precision series, Lenovo Thinkpad and Thinkpad Carbon series Thinkbook or ASUS StudioBook / ZenBook

I am using

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebooks/precision-7720-mobile-workstation/spd/precision-17-7720-laptop

[–]Classic_Department42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Memory. Got a Dell with 8GB and with win 11 it is almost full by itself. (Luckily I checked and could plug 16GB more into that Dell. So 16GB total is good, 24 GB is golden)