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Discussion on: What dev machine would you buy today with a budget of around $3,000?

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Dídac

Dell XPS 15(1.659 € don't know in $):

  • Intel® Core™ i7-7700HQ
  • 16 GB RAM
  • SSD PCIe 512GB
  • Has Windows 10 but I will change it for Ubuntu (they have specific drivers for everything)
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Brett Stevenson • Edited

This is the suggestion I seem to be seeing the most recently, it also doesn't hurt that Linus Torvalds hails this as his laptop of choice.
Also, there is a Developer's Edition of the XPS that comes preloaded with Linux, though I don't know if they offer a 15" option.

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Armando Pérez Marqués

This is what I ended up doing, no regrets so far. I went for the most powerful variant that doesn't have touchscreen, removed Windows and installed Linux. Everything just works. The only minor annoyance could be that to switch between the integrated and the discreet graphics cards I have to log out and log back in, but in my case, that doesn't happen often.