I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I recently upgraded to this from a roughly-equivalent Vaio, because that had a hardware fault on the USB controller and a 15" plastic laptop is just too creaky and cumbersome to use on the sofa. I used its RAM and SSD to upgrade the T410 and bought a new battery on ebay for £10.
What's important to me?
The SSD, because it lets any old machine perform responsively.
The keyboard light lets me work in the dark - it's not as good as a backlit keyboard, but it's still much better than nothing.
If I was made of money I'd buy something with a non-integrated GPU and more CPU cores so I could use tools like Blender, I guess, but to be honest I'd probably do that on a desktop machine anyway. I have a gaming PC running Windows that I could probably make into something but I can't be bothered to get off the aforementioned sofa.
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Thinkpad T410 (2011)
i5-520m (2-core) @ 2.4GHz
8GB RAM
240GB SSD
Arch Linux
I recently upgraded to this from a roughly-equivalent Vaio, because that had a hardware fault on the USB controller and a 15" plastic laptop is just too creaky and cumbersome to use on the sofa. I used its RAM and SSD to upgrade the T410 and bought a new battery on ebay for £10.
What's important to me?
The SSD, because it lets any old machine perform responsively.
The keyboard light lets me work in the dark - it's not as good as a backlit keyboard, but it's still much better than nothing.
If I was made of money I'd buy something with a non-integrated GPU and more CPU cores so I could use tools like Blender, I guess, but to be honest I'd probably do that on a desktop machine anyway. I have a gaming PC running Windows that I could probably make into something but I can't be bothered to get off the aforementioned sofa.