What to choose between these 4 laptops for programming?

Masquerade908 · Sep 24, 2016

Hello, I am in the market for a new ~$600 laptop. It is okay to go a little over or under if necessary. I will mainly be using it for programming in school. I have a good desktop already so I do not need huge storage (so I prefer SSD) or a dedicated GPU for gaming (I don't plan on programming or rendering any games by the way). Googling has led me to a choice of these 4 laptops (any other suggestions welcome) and I was wondering which one out of these 4 would be the "best" in your guys' opinion:
ASUS Zenbook UX305UA (AKA the Mac clone)
ASUS F556UA
Acer Aspire E 15
Lenovo ThinkPad 13 (If this should I get the Black or Silver edition?)

Thank you for your help

geofelt · Sep 24, 2016

If you need portability, then the 13" laptops will be half the weight and is probably best for your usage.

I think Lenovo generally has the better keyboards.
Here is a review; you might want to compare reviews of the others:
http

/www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-13-Ultrabook-Review.166559.0.html

geofelt · Sep 26, 2016

The key to performance on a laptop is the ssd.
I have had great success buying used/refurbished laptops with minimal ram and a small hard drive.
Adding ram and changing to a ssd is not expensive.
One of the best is the Lenovo T430s. The s variants are lighter. You can find them on ebay for $250 or so, depending on what is inside. Some come with a discrete graphics chip for light gaming.
They are usually corporate units that have come off lease and cleaned up.
And... they come with windows 7, not windows 10 which is a plus in my book.
Here is just one example.
http

/www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-ThinkPad-T430-laptop-Core-i5-2-6GHZ-8GB-RAM-320GB-hdd-Win-7-Pro-T430s-/401146140891?hash=item5d662c58db:g:LlQAAOSwtnpXjoSp

Add a Samsung 250gb ssd, you can use their clone utility to migrate.
I have done this to two T430s units with no issue.

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