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Discussion on: Can we use a good configuration gaming laptop for programming?

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Davey Faherty

I have a gaming laptop I use for dev, and my wife's office, a software company default to gaming laptops.

The great thing about gaming laptops is that they balance power and price well, especially if you don't go for crazy high spec. I use a MacBook Pro in work and that's nice too. It and my ASUS RoG laptop both do everything I ask in good time, the only thing that would make you miss a Mac is developing for Apple stuff. Also, I dual boot with Win10 and Ubuntu, prefer Ubuntu for dev.

Two downsides to gaming laptops:

  • weight, they tend to be a bit heavy for running around with
  • battery life, if the graphics card gets involved, it can be short.