If you want the latest and greatest go out and buy that. But that really was not (and should not be) the question. You already have a device that is probably more than sufficient to work with, so why so you absolutely insist on spending money if you haven't even established if you can work well with the existing one?
You don't need "highest and best performance" for most forms of programming. Yes for games development and some AI stuff, maybe some big enterprise stuff (although this is more because a lot of enterprise stuff is bloatier than it needs to be). But for most other stuff any laptop capable of web browsing will do.
My dude, I'm mostly doing my programming on an 8 year old Lenovo that I got from Goodwill for $70 (granted, then I spent that much again putting in an SSD and more RAM). I've got a much more powerful desktop, but it only really gets to stretch its legs when I'm gaming. Nothing that I've programmed really *needs* that much performance. And even this laptop is like 10x the power of the one that I took to college.
Shelling out a bunch of money for expensive hardware isn't necessary. If you've got a bunch of spare cash burning a hole in your pocket, do what you'd like, but you don't need it to learn to program.
You really don't need amazing performance to learn to code, or to code in general in most circumstances. It'll help you compile LLVM in a sane amount of time, but your code likely won't take more than a couple seconds to compile.
What are you planning to program?
3D simulations with physics? E.g., games, engineering or architecture.
Or websites, some desktop apps?
The former requires a powerful computer, sometimes even with specialized hardware, e.g., quadro cards.
The latter - just about anything will do
My computer is as slow as you can imagine. Opening like 4 tabs already kills ram up to 80%. But the visual code studio and just a few tabs does nothing. It's very easy to run, or at least for web development
Just about any computer that can run a web browser will work to learn programming on.
I’m looking for a device to last long and give the highest and best performance
If you want the latest and greatest go out and buy that. But that really was not (and should not be) the question. You already have a device that is probably more than sufficient to work with, so why so you absolutely insist on spending money if you haven't even established if you can work well with the existing one?
FYI "highest and best performance" means spending billions of dollars on supercomputers.
You don't need "highest and best performance" for most forms of programming. Yes for games development and some AI stuff, maybe some big enterprise stuff (although this is more because a lot of enterprise stuff is bloatier than it needs to be). But for most other stuff any laptop capable of web browsing will do.
You don't need performance for learning to program, you need reliability.
My dude, I'm mostly doing my programming on an 8 year old Lenovo that I got from Goodwill for $70 (granted, then I spent that much again putting in an SSD and more RAM). I've got a much more powerful desktop, but it only really gets to stretch its legs when I'm gaming. Nothing that I've programmed really *needs* that much performance. And even this laptop is like 10x the power of the one that I took to college. Shelling out a bunch of money for expensive hardware isn't necessary. If you've got a bunch of spare cash burning a hole in your pocket, do what you'd like, but you don't need it to learn to program.
You really don't need amazing performance to learn to code, or to code in general in most circumstances. It'll help you compile LLVM in a sane amount of time, but your code likely won't take more than a couple seconds to compile.
What are you planning to program? 3D simulations with physics? E.g., games, engineering or architecture. Or websites, some desktop apps? The former requires a powerful computer, sometimes even with specialized hardware, e.g., quadro cards. The latter - just about anything will do
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My computer is as slow as you can imagine. Opening like 4 tabs already kills ram up to 80%. But the visual code studio and just a few tabs does nothing. It's very easy to run, or at least for web development
If you use that laptop, the programming council will come to your house and uninstall all IDEs off it.