Best programming laptop? Price is not an issue

[mattwood2855]

I would like to get a quality laptop with the best feature set for a programmer.

I bought the Dell XPS18 (which I loved), but its a little slow on larger compilations and will cause music to stutter on youtube. It also has slow writespeeds sometimes (weird issue, but annoying when copying large filesets)

I predominantly code with .NET in Visual Studio 2013, but sometimes will work in LAMP stacks for web projects.

One of my projects is a game being built in Unreal Engine 4, so gpu is also important.

Thanks guys!

 

[Brunostako]

Just look for a Core i7 Haswell laptop with 16GB of RAM. That's all. To know if it is a Haswell, its code number starts with 4 and must not have a U or Y, those imply low power and lower performance vs normal ones.

Saludos desde México

 

[Illumynization]

As a programmer myself, an i5 is plenty for most compilers. However since you will be using Unreal Engine, I suggest an i7 with a dedicated GPU of at least an 840M or higher. The Unreal Engine when compiling on just the i7 takes a bit too much time.

 

[mattwood2855]

Is there a certain company i should be looking at? I build my desktops - it seems building your own laptops isnt so plausible.

I think an i7 with one of the high GTXM cards is good, and the bigger the screen the better.

I feel like Alienware and MSI are overpriced. Is there a solid competitor in the high end gaming laptops?

 

[Brunostako]

Is there a certain company i should be looking at? I build my desktops - it seems building your own laptops isnt so plausible.

I think an i7 with one of the high GTXM cards is good, and the bigger the screen the better.

I feel like Alienware and MSI are overpriced. Is there a solid competitor in the high end gaming laptops?

Asus also have great gaming notebooks like ROG G750JZ.
http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/ASUS_ROG_G750JZ/

It has a Core i7-4700HQ 4-core/8-thread and a GTX 880M. But I don't know the price.

 

[Illumynization]

The MSI one's are actually not too overpriced compared to Alienware and the ROG series.
(I know the price margins but I am not allowed to disclose them)

MSI i7 w/GT840M 15.6"
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8931216&CatId=4001

MSI i7 w/GTX860M 17.3"
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8925579&CatId=4001