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Laptop for development

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anakish1980 Original post #1
Oct 17, 2012 at 4:25 PM
Hi all,
I am a software developer who will be leaving the current organization to work as a freelance consultant.
I usually use Eclipse, Visual Studio, Enterprise solutions(which require 4 GB RAM) and also use VM images for development if required.
I won't be using it for games
Based on that I am thinking of taking a laptop with following configurations mainly

3rd Gen i5 Intel Processor
8 GB Ram
Harddisk- Min 120 GB(can use portable Harddisk if required for more).
14 inch laptop.
Budget is Upto 60K(not more than that :-( )

iam not able to identify any particular brand as such. Please help me in choosing one of the laptop.

Is Ultrabooks good to be used for development?

Thanks in advance.
rider
rider #2
Oct 17, 2012 at 8:41 PM
For 14" laptop buy 3rd gen core-i5 Dell Inspiron 14R Turbo and upgrade it with 8GB RAM.