I would encourage people to consider buying business laptops. In my experience many developers don't even consider business laptops and only buy consumer devices.
Business laptops have the following advantages over consumer laptops:
- they're much more reliable
- better support
- a lot fewer problems with drivers and other incompatibilities
- they are designed for work, which means you will have fewer problems with things like virtualization
- generally speaking, the keyboard and the track-pad will be better
And the good thing is that some of the disadvantages of business laptops like size and bulkiness have also disappeared. You can now find business ultra-books that look good and work well.
Business laptops have the following advantages over consumer laptops: - they're much more reliable - better support - a lot fewer problems with drivers and other incompatibilities - they are designed for work, which means you will have fewer problems with things like virtualization - generally speaking, the keyboard and the track-pad will be better
And the good thing is that some of the disadvantages of business laptops like size and bulkiness have also disappeared. You can now find business ultra-books that look good and work well.