Any programmers?

darren2368

I'm probably going to be getting a new laptop and this is the one I've been looking at for a while now, http://www.currys.ie/Product/ASUS-K55VDSX504H-156andquot-Laptop/315740/148

Is a 2nd gen I3 good enough for running programs like eclipse and such at a decent speed?

Khannie

Yes.

galwayjohn89

That laptop would be fine.

I have a very similar laptop and it runs eclipse, blueJ etc with no issues.

Diarmuid_K

Ya it will run it no problem

juan.kerr

Processor is fine but if you plan to run many other programs (app servers etc) as well as Eclipse make sure the RAM is expandable.

Diarmuid_K

My old desktop I use as a just a programming machine has a 1.6Ghz Single Core processor and 800Mb of ram.

darren2368

juan.kerr wrote: »

Processor is fine but if you plan to run many other programs (app servers etc) as well as Eclipse make sure the RAM is expandable.

I think I'll probably upgrade it straight away. May aswell have the 8Gb available just to be safe.

What's the best place for getting affordable Ram? Haven't looked into it too much. Only one I know of is crucial.com

Gumbi

That's a really expensive laptop for the specs. Here are a couple that are cheaper. One of these has 6GB of RAM.

http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/ASUS_X54C-SX548V_1336219.html

http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/ASUS_X54C_1218871.html

darren2368

Gumbi wrote: »

That's a really expensive laptop for the specs. Here are a couple that are cheaper. One of these has 6GB of RAM.

http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/ASUS_X54C-SX548V_1336219.html

http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/ASUS_X54C_1218871.html

I'm not getting it in Currys anymore, actually found the same laptop but with much better specs, for the very same price as the Currys one.

http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/ASUS_K55VD-SX494H_1337330.html

Will be much happier with this one needless to say.

Saw the ones you posted too but they don't have usb 3.0 ports, and only 2 2.0 ports. I have a 3.0 portable hard disk so I wanna take advantage of the extra speed from that

Gumbi

darren2368 wrote: »

I'm not getting it in Currys anymore, actually found the same laptop but with much better specs, for the very same price as the Currys one.

http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/ASUS_K55VD-SX494H_1337330.html

Will be much happier with this one needless to say.

Saw the ones you posted too but they don't have usb 3.0 ports, and only 2 2.0 ports. I have a 3.0 portable hard disk so I wanna take advantage of the extra speed from that

Much better specs

areyawell

Honestly better off with a desktop with a nice big screen for programming or duel monitors. Doing it on a laptop will drive ya cracked, well it did for me.!

darren2368

areyawell wrote: »

Honestly better off with a desktop with a nice big screen for programming or duel monitors. Doing it on a laptop will drive ya cracked, well it did for me.!

Oh I know the feeling haha. I'm actually only in college right now so I need something that I can bring with me. I can always plug it into the Tv if need be!