Laptop for programming & occasional gaming

cryuff

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Hi,
Soon, I'll be changing my job, and I'll need to return the laptop that I've been using for the past 2 years.

It is the 2016 Macbook Pro, touch bar version, 3,3GHz i7, 16GB RAM. For me it's a great laptop, the only problem is the keyboard, which I've already had two times fixed.

Now I'm looking for an upgrade. I was thinking to give a shot to Windows again, if it will fail I'll switch to Linux.

I was thinking about Razer Blade Stealth 13(1060 version). as I really like working on a 13-inch laptop, and I don't want to get a bigger one. The only concern is that I cannot check if the keyboard will be ok for me as I live in Poland and this laptop is not available in any stationery store so I'd need to order it online.
Also, I'm a little bit scared that battery after a few months, won't be able to last for more than 3-4 hours.

I'll use it mostly for work, so programming, nothing hardware consuming, frontend for most of the time. I'd say 16GB of RAM, in that case, is a minimum (right now Mac is using 9GB).

Occasionally I would like to be able to play in games like Fifa, if I'd be also able to run something like Red Dead Redemption II, that would be great.

Sometimes I use Photoshop & Illustrator for side projects, but I don't think it will be a problem for any laptop.
Max budget is around 2000 euro.

PS. I also need to change the phone, I'm thinking about Pixel 4, if you have it and it's really bad, let me know :)
 
Macbook Pro 16 lowest config is a great fit for your needs (please note that the new Macbook Pro 16 is using a new keyboard tech). Use it with a bootloader and load Windows 10 for games that are not available on MacOS. I plan to do the same once I can (I am a web developer).
 
@ambushiv11 Unfortunately I prefer smaller laptops, 16 is way to big for me, I'll travel a lot with it.
 
I do programming and gaming on an i3/6gb quite comfortably. Unless your front end work involves machine learning then needing 16gb ram as a minimum for programming is ridiculous overkill IMO.

Needing the ram for gaming though, now that would make sense ;)
 
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