Finally got a dev laptop! :coffee:

Couple of years ago, my first laptop broke down. After that I decided to get a desktop instead which I use until now. But for the past few months I've been thinking of buying a dev machine since I moved out from home into a place closer to work. I had a hard time deciding whether it should be a Macbook Pro since I use this most of the time at work or a Macbook Air for it's portability and of course the budget .

I would definitely love to have an apple product as my development and personal machine but find them too pricey for now and as a person who have been using ubunu for the past few years now I'd happily pick a non Apple machine as long as it's specifications are enough for my use cases .

So I browsed some of online shops and found then bought a pre used Thinkpad T430 with 16gb of RAM, 240gb of SSD storage, and 1gb of videocard. Keyboard is not backlit but it does have a flashlight kind of thing that does the job of a keyboard lighting and it feels pretty cool got it half the price of a pre used Macbook Pro that has almost the same hardware specifications. Feels like I'm getting my money's worth. Hopefully nothing goes wrong since I have only using it now for a few days.

As of the installation I had a trouble installating Ubuntu 16.04 via DVD but it was successful when I used a bootable flash drive.

To end I'd like to say that it feels so much more motivating to do some programming in a laptop over a desktop! So get one(whatever you prefer of course) if you are a developer who wants to get something done on your weekends!