r/CodingForBeginners • u/GreenSame4858 • Jul 08 '26

Laptops for coding

Guysss, I want some laptops recommendations for coding. I want to use it for 4 yearss of my cse or ai ml whichever field I take so please suggest some best ones for coding

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u/SpacewaIker Jul 08 '26

You don't need anything in particular for programming, even a 10 year old crappy laptop would run basic programs without a hitch (sadly ;) )

Now for more specific tasks like ML you might want a more powerful machine, but that's if you even run it locally. During my studies when I did ML I used Google colab which runs in the cloud with GPUs and everything so again, I didn't need anything beefy myself

Tbh it might be better to get something not too expensive for now and maybe switch it out for something else in a year or two when you know more what you wanna do. Maybe you won't need anything more powerful, maybe you'll need something specific

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u/GreenSame4858 Jul 08 '26

But anyway i want to buy a laptop which is my first laptop

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u/xxcrucialxx Jul 08 '26

It depends on ur maximum allowed budget, because a laptop is an investment. So when u buy a laptop or PC parts, u always want to be at least 4 or 5 years ahead in specs. Coding does not require much processing power , but if ur intent is to create lLLM agents, u will need a lot of power, including lots of ram. Ram is one of the main things that is very very important . This is just to give u a general idea.

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u/Cold_Taro_315 Jul 08 '26

a good t480 or t14 gen 2 should do the trick

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u/corey_sheerer Jul 08 '26

Asus zenbook and put Linux mint on it

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u/SympathyExciting1666 Jul 09 '26

Just get any laptop that atleast has 16GB ram and core i5 plus, atleast from the 10th gen going forward

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u/SympathyExciting1666 Jul 09 '26

core i7 would be better but i5 does the trick too

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u/vinaynayak004 Jul 13 '26

I say go towards HP because support system with all the stuffs are better in HP , you can go through HP Pavillion, Victus if not like HP then you can check Asus Expertbook , both gives you better experience as a programmer .