Ask HN: Best windows laptop (replacement for macbook)

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So i am trying to find the best replacement for my current macbook. Should be a windows laptop, 16+GB ram, i7, decent hdd speed and decent graphic card. Any real life experience welcome.

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The newer Dell XPS 13s are really nice. They're a great dev laptop.

If you want something with better graphics, I'd suggest one of the MSI gaming series:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/msi-ws60-running-linux/

Came here to say this. Have the XPS 13, and have been very happy with it. However, wishing I would have go the 15 as a small footprint is less of a concern than I thought it would be, and I'd appreciate more screen RE.

If you want best build quality: Buy a mac (maybe not the newest generation if you want a lot of ports) and put Windows on it with Bootcamp. (no joke) Maybe also look on Razer blade laptops http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade

I bought a Dell 7559. It's easy to upgrade with an M.2 SSD as the primary drive, and I upgraded to that and 16GB RAM first thing. Very happy with how responsive the system is. And it was all less than $1000 USD.

The latest Dell XPS 15 comes with a Nvidia 1050 card and is all round pretty well put together (assuming it has the same construction as the current xps)

hi, i found this dell,

seems to be pretty good value for that money http://www.dell.com/nz/p/inspiron-15-7567-laptop/pd?oc=z5112...

Sorry to hijack, but when I don't really need GFX as I only want it for programming (Ubuntu preferred over windows)?

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