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Ask HN: Just got laid off, need personal laptop for front end dev

2 points by astrowilliam ↗ HN
Hello everyone. I got the news yesterday that I had been the victim of recent cost cutting measures at my dream job. Now I've been thrown back into the realm of freelance/contract work and am wondering if you have suggestions for a work laptop.

Now that I don't have steady income I have to really focus on cost cutting.

0. Looking for a light weight/sturdy machine that can handle photoshop and front end code. 1. I plan on being mobile/traveling a bit so a laptop is a must. 2. I'm used to Macbook Pros and have been using them for 5+ years 3. OSX would be preferable, but not an absolute must 4. I work with this stack Ruby/rails/SASS/html5/javascript/photoshop/illustrator/SVG. Dabble in Wordpress/Ghost

Thanks in advance, any help is appreciated.

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wyldfire
I bought a Dell XPS13 refurb recently and it is just excellent. I have ubuntu running on it. I don't know if Photoshop and Illustrator are available for ubuntu, but everything else likely is.
sjs382
A few years ago, I had my main machine die and was totally strapped for cash at the time. That's when I found the Lenovo Outlet store, and got a really cheap refurb. It was very underpowered, even at the time, but was enough to get me by until I could afford something nicer.

Maybe you'll be able to find something similar: http://shop.lenovo.com/outlet_us/laptops/#facet-1=1,2,3,4

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