Looking for a dev friendly laptop for school purposes.

I suppose the title is self explanatory. I'm looking for a relatively lightweight and relatively fast laptop for use with programs like Visual Studio and MS SQL Server.

Maybe something like a Dell XPS 13 or 15?

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I had MS Visual Studio running decently on an Intel Atom netbook back in 2010-2011. That one had just 2 Gb of RAM. Most current laptops should run it fine.

ThinkPad X260, T460s or X1 Carbon. Fantastic keyboards and the Trackpoint is IMO the best solution for mobile mousing. Dell XPSes are really nice too though.

@scoots9: i have an x250 and love it, if the screen size doesn't bother you an x260 could be a great option. My x250 (i5) handles engineering programs like matlab, xilinx vivado, and Eagle very well.

Try to find out if any of the programs you'll be using have cuda support, if so get a laptop with an nvidia gpu.