Ideal laptop specs for a Computer Science Masters student? [closed]

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Published on 2012-11-07T22:51:42Z Indexed on 2012/11/07 23:13 UTC
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I have a HP pavillion core 2 duo 2 GHz and 4 GB RAM, and it is painful to use this machine for any kind of coding. Eclipse (especially Juno) literally takes 5 minutes to load. And even after that, everything is lagy.

Apart from school stuff, I also use my computer as a television. I watch Hulu, Netflix, YouTube etc in 720p, and this laptop gets hot as hell and the fans are loud enough to wake somebody up from deep sleep.

I DON'T use my laptop for Gaming or Video/Photo Editing.

I'm looking to buy a new laptop (in which most widely used IDEs would work smoothly and playing hi-def videos wouldn't be too much for the machine to handle) any suggestions (on hardware specs) would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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