Currently using Lenovo y500 SLI GT650m running Ubunbu Gnome. Intern as IOS Developer. Going to pursue final year degree in Computer science in US.

Not sure whether to continue building apps for IOS. But looking for a premium build laptop. Planning to pass this Gaming laptop to my younger bro as I don't need so much GPU power.

If money is not a problem. What's the best laptop for programmer/ developer ?

- premium build quality
- support 2x external monitor
- resolution as high as possible. 2k or 4k
- ram : 16gm (multi VMs)
- Disk : ( anti HDD only SSD)
- more CPU less GPU. Intel GPU is fine. Afaik, intel gpu can now support 3x display.

- wait for 2015 mbpr 15' refresh?
- Dell Precision M3800 mobile workstation, developer edition (ubuntu), it has quadro, overpowered GPU. i dont think i need that.
- Any think pad series reached my requirements ? (i know they're good in build quality)
- or any other recommendation, other developer what are you using ?

This post has been edited by xowangzi: Mar 21 2015, 01:48 PM

Really appreciate your replies. Ytd went to Harvey Norman and molested their mbp. Their build quality really not bad and there's a model without nvidia. By any chance you guys know about the after sale from Apple? Because I know their recent mbp is not upgradable friendly.