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I would probably go with the Lenovo T420 to get the best bang for your buck. An i5, 16gb of memory and an SSD will be more than enough. My home gaming PC used a
by zachruss92 9y ago
I would probably go with the Lenovo T420 to get the best bang for your buck. An i5, 16gb of memory and an SSD will be more than enough. My home gaming PC used a 3rd gen processor until about 3 months ago, I was not limited by the CPU at all (I wanted an nvme SSD and the new AMD Ryzen processor)
Your #2 isn't ideal as you'd undoubtedly struggle with 4gb of ram. Chrome and Slack can be a huge memory hog, on top of what PyCharm and your actual application use. You could upgrade the ram, but you're already spending $450.
My primary work machine is a MacBook pro (2014), but it is by no means necessary. My next laptop will run linux.