I recommend you to buy the SSD and the extra memory at Crucial. The price is very competitive and the hardware very good. I have both 8 gigs of memory and 128 S

I recommend you to buy the SSD and the extra memory at Crucial. The price is very competitive and the hardware very good. I have both 8 gigs of memory and 128 SSD and I'm very happy with it. The other think, that is a personal preference, is the size of the keyboard and the keys. There are some laptops that have a small size of a key and this is not the best kind for programing. The Lenovo keyboard are one of the best out there (well, in MO, but it's the opinion of a lot Lenovo owners) and you shuld really give it a shot. I recommend you the series X of Lenovo and the X230[1] if you want a small but powerful laptop (12.5''). This is the one I'm using and I'm very happy with it. And if you want something bigger take a look at the X1 Carbon[2]. If you buy the SSD and the extra memory in Curcial instead of Lenovo you will save some bucks. [1] http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087&current-category-id=42D5009B1EABB377BFC4965EE083D306 http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPo... [2] http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087&current-category-id=0E6E3D0084869C3EB4172DA2F965A301 http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPo...