Laptop buying help

[JasonCoder]

Purpose: Coding, coding and more coding. Don't want to game at all with this machine.
Don't need a touchscreen. The nicer the screen the better and a back-lit keyboard is very desirable. Really want a 15" screen, might be able to do a 14"

Brand: don't care much for Dell

Budget: ~$1000

 

[ncage]

Purpose: Coding, coding and more coding. Don't want to game at all with this machine.
Don't need a touchscreen. The nicer the screen the better and a back-lit keyboard is very desirable. Really want a 15" screen, might be able to do a 14"

Brand: don't care much for Dell

Budget: ~$1000

Jason can you tell me what kind of coding you planning to do? Do you want to stick with a particular OS (MacOS,Linux,Windows)?

 

[JasonCoder]

Should be able to run linux VM on windows or windows VM on linux so that doesn't matter. The macos route (not including hackintoshes) is going to be > $1k with a 15" screen. Unless I find a good deal on a used model. But they seem to hold their value exceptionally well so that might be rough.

 

[s44]

14" HP 3200*1800 $800 w/o SSD

Or configure one of the HP 15" versions at their own site to 1080p with their coupon "PC92229", like this. Also comes w/o SSD. Coupons expire today.

Edit: or the ASUS Q501 at Best Buy... $730, still no SSD. See AT thread below

 

[JasonCoder]

Some pretty good options there S44. Thanks for the link to the techbargains site!

I am so totally picky. I'll find something eventually. I'm starting to think the super resolution screens aren't worth it in Windows yet. Researching if a Linux distro does well with it...