Suggestion for personal work laptop

A Junior SWE here I want to buy a personal work laptop and can afford a laptop upto 1.5L Given that I would be working on personal projects on this laptip, should I go ahead only with MacBook? Or any other? Please suggest

Also I am getting MacBook Air M1 13inch with 8 gb ram for 70k, since Ram is expandable upto 70k, should I go ahead with it?

11mo ago

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TwirlyJellybean

Student11mo

ram expandable upto 16gb

WigglyMuffin

Stealth11mo

Where are you getting this in 70k? I am seeing in 80k

SparklyNarwhal

Accenture11mo

Ram expandable? For M1 mac??

SillyNoodle

Yahoo11mo

Just get the M3 MBP 8Gb RAM if you get a deal under 1.5 L

TwirlyJellybean

Student11mo

why? is m3 much better than M1?

SillyNoodle

Yahoo11mo

Just to future proof, M1 also serves your purpose

PrancingCoconut

Accenture11mo

If it's for work, get a decent spec laptop and install a Linux distro. Best. Don't get a macbook unless you're already used to it's ecosystem, no bs maintenance charges, don't have to pay a low range laptop's price just to get 1tb of storage. Wouldn't recommend a high end spec laptop since they'd be heavy

SnoozyCoconut

Tredence11mo

I am thinking to buy auss but heard it has hearing issues I7 evo 16gb model Should go with Lenovo/hp?

PrancingCoconut

Accenture11mo

Asus, dell are good brands, I don't have a good experience with HP tho. Not sure about others.

Yes, the i7 is powerful enough for most work stuff and can handle gaming/decent productivity loads as well if you get it with a GPU. Make sure you get the latest gen of the CPU tho, at max one gen behind. 16 GB of ram is good for now for most things, you can always add another 16 GB after 3 years down the lane. Make sure it has an additional M.2 slot as well so that you can add more memory if needed

SwirlyPenguin

Stealth11mo

get m1 16gb 512gb will cost ~1.4L if you use gst of a firm effective cost would be ~1.18L. I got the same laptop and its worth it

JumpySushi

Target11mo

Macs no longer have expandable storage, let alone ram. U have to pay 20k for 8 gigs at time of purchase, and what u buy you will have to live with.

Easier to get a Windows machine, dual boot with linux and you will be able to use all the terminal commands you use on Mac. Brew, colima, everything works fine. Or just use WSL on windows, might need a few days to get used to. Cheaper and more practical.

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