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Discussion on: What computer do you use for software develpment?

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The Elitebook series is OK so far, decent Debian/Ubuntu support for both machine and dock. 16 GB or more of RAM is more important than anything else if there's good Linux and docking support, because databases, browsers, frontend builds and whatnot I'd like to keep running locally and in parallel.

Screen on the laptop doesn't matter much, neither does keyboard, since almost all the time I'm in an armchair with a cheap touchpad-equipped bluetooth keyboard and watching external monitors. Most monitors can render text just fine when ambient light is easy to control, and I never do sophisticated graphical design so colour precision matters little to me.