Factors to consider - speed and performance, better value for money (1600 or 1700 would be good. Lesser amount would be awesome). 8 GB ram or 16 GB ram?
You could also consider the matebook pro and put Linux on it.
MBP but max out on RAM & CPU
The cost will be around 2600$ š„
On the long run, it will be worth it. I'm not sure what kind of work you do, but being able to work locally on large projects instead of SSH-ing into a dev box gave me a large productivity boost.
Every PC laptop my friends/family/I have used became unuseably slow or broken within 3 years. MBP is way more expensive but lasted me 5 years without any problems.
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My personal dev machine is an XPS 15 and I havenāt had any issues with it so far. But then again Iāve only had it for little over a year. My specs are 1TB SSD 32GB RAM and i7 processor. More than enough power šŖ
That is a beast!! 32 GB seems like overkill?
Put Linux on the Dell machine
Dell for personal laptop. Get a company MacBook
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Mbp choice is obvious if you're doing Dev work
What specs would you prefer ?