Of course the kind programming you seem to do doesn't use a lot of resources from your laptop, but getting one with good components(at least a quad core cpu, 8GB of Ram, a discrete GPU) would be a nice choice, considering future-proofing. I'd recommend you to consider this one: amazon.com/VivoBook-i7-8550U-Proce... <-- I would avoid the other 15.6" model because it has a worse looking screen
Probably you wouldn't need a 17.3" screen laptop, but once I got one, i never looked back. This model has an almost all-metal construction, a great latest gen 4 cores/8 threads CPU, 16 GB of RAM which is plenty, a GTX 1050 as a nice addition, a good IPS 1080p screen ,backlit keyboard, and other features. It's only "downside" is that you won't get a long battery life (~ 5 to 6 hours of use).
If battery life is something you can't neglect, you can check out these other models(if you're considering to buy a 2k+$ laptop, maybe price won't be an issue for you):
Remember: Nice laptops like these would last you for a lot of years (even if some of these are branded as "gaming laptops")
Of course the kind programming you seem to do doesn't use a lot of resources from your laptop, but getting one with good components(at least a quad core cpu, 8GB of Ram, a discrete GPU) would be a nice choice, considering future-proofing. I'd recommend you to consider this one: amazon.com/VivoBook-i7-8550U-Proce... <-- I would avoid the other 15.6" model because it has a worse looking screen
Probably you wouldn't need a 17.3" screen laptop, but once I got one, i never looked back. This model has an almost all-metal construction, a great latest gen 4 cores/8 threads CPU, 16 GB of RAM which is plenty, a GTX 1050 as a nice addition, a good IPS 1080p screen ,backlit keyboard, and other features. It's only "downside" is that you won't get a long battery life (~ 5 to 6 hours of use).
If battery life is something you can't neglect, you can check out these other models(if you're considering to buy a 2k+$ laptop, maybe price won't be an issue for you):
Remember: Nice laptops like these would last you for a lot of years (even if some of these are branded as "gaming laptops")
amazon.com/UX550VE-DB71T-15-6-inch...
gearbest.com/laptops/pp_786412.htm...
amazon.com/MSI-GS63-STEALTH-060-i7...
And of course:
amazon.com/dp/B06XTCJT17/ref=twist...