best laptop for programming in india

This article will guide you to choose the best laptop for programming and some of my top laptops picks for programmers in India.

As a programmer or developer, it becomes really confusing to pick the best laptop from thousands of laptops available in the market. It becomes even more difficult for a person who is just starting programming.

Below I have shared some key points that will definitely help you to pick a perfect laptop for working on any programming technology.

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How to Choose Best Laptop for Programming in 2017?

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How to Choose the Best Laptop for Programming?

RAM

It is the first most important thing that you should look for. A laptop with 8GB RAM is an ideal choice but 16GB RAM would the best choice. If your budget is too low then you can go with 4GB RAM also.

Believe me it really sucks working on a low performance machine. Earlier I used to do android app development on a laptop with 4GB RAM. It was so annoying because everything works really slow.

So I would highly recommend you a 16GB RAM laptop if you are a mobile app developer.

Best Choice: 16GB RAM

Ideal Choice: 8GB RAM

Low Budget Choice: 4GB RAM

Processor

Good processor and RAM should be your highest priority while choosing a laptop for programming. As a programmer or developer, we have to do multitasking. When I do programming or development I have to open a few IDEs along with a browser with several tabs opened. For such a purpose, a good processor is required.

A laptop with i5 processor is an ideal choice. You can go with i7 processor if you have a huge budget and for a low budget, you can go with i3 processor.

Best Choice: i7 Processor

Ideal Choice: i5 Processor

Low Budget Choice: i3 Processor

Note: Now Apple laptops are powered by M1 Chip. It is also a good choice for programming.

Graphics Card

External graphic card is not necessary until you are not doing game development or some high graphics related work. But if you are a game developer then you must go with a laptop with an external graphic card.

Best Choice (Specially For Game Developers): External Graphic Card (2GB or 4GB)

Ideal and Low Budget Choice (For Other Developers): Integrated Graphic Card

Storage

SSD and HDD are two storage types that laptops have. SSD gives faster performance but costlier than HDD. Its great if you can afford an SSD storage type laptop. But if you can't then go with HDD and later on you can use some external SSD storage.

Battery Life

If you mostly work at places where the power supply is not available then you must choose a laptop with huge battery life. Otherwise these days almost all laptops come with moderate battery backup.

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Below I have shared some laptops that I believe are good for programmers in India. Even if you don't like any of them you can consider the above points to pick the best laptop according to your usage.

10 Best Laptops for Programmers and Developers in India

Laptop	Processor	RAM	Hard Disk	Graphics Card	Buy Now
New Apple MacBook Pro with Apple M1 Chip	Apple M1 chip, 8-core CPU	8 GB	512GB SSD	Apple 8-core GPU	Check Price
ASUS ZenBook 14	Intel Core i7-1165G7 11th Gen	16 GB	512GB NVMe SSD	Intel Iris Xᵉ Graphics	Check Price
Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3i	10th Gen Intel Core i7	8 GB	1TB HDD + 256GB SSD	NVIDIA GTX 1650 4GB GDDR6	Check Price
ASUS ROG Strix G17	Intel Core i7-10750H 10th Gen	16 GB	512GB NVMe SSD	GTX 1660Ti 6GB Graphics	Check Price
Acer Nitro 5	Intel Core i5-10th Gen	8 GB	1TB HDD + 256GB SSD	NVIDIA RTX 3060 with 6 GB	Check Price
ASUS VivoBook	Intel Core i5-1035G1 10th Gen	8GB	512GB NVMe SSD + 32GB Optane Memory	Integrated Intel UHD Graphics	Check Price
Lenovo Legion Y540	9th Gen Core Intel i5	8GB	1TB HDD + 128 GB SSD	4GB NVIDIA GTX 1650	Check Price
Lenovo Ideapad S340	Intel Core i3 10th Gen	8GB	256GB SSD	Integrated Graphics	Check Price
HP 15	AMD Ryzen 5 3450U	8GB	512GB SSD	AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics	Check Price
Dell Inspiron 3505	AMD Ryzen 3 3250U	8 GB	256 GB SSD	AMD Radeon Vega Graphics	Check Price

Comment below if I have any tips for choosing the best laptop for programming and development. You can also ask your queries related to buying a good programming laptop.