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Alienware x14 for Web Development
I recently decided to switch back to a PC away from my all Apple products. I have an iMac 27" and the MacBook Air that I use both for development. Unfortunately the retina displays just mess with my eyes way too much and I wanted something with a matte display that’s a little better on the eyes. After looking through the lineup, most of the laptops that had any real spec to them were gaming laptops.
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Out of the gaming laptops, the one that stood out the most to me was the Alienware x14. I was looking for something with a little more power and something that didn’t weight like a ton of bricks. I needed a laptop that was compact enough for me to carry around and work from. After looking through quite a few laptops, this was the one.
Since most of my work is done with Laravel currently (writing a book on Laravel), I simply needed Docker to work. The first 2 days didn’t go as expected. With my MacBook Air, I was up and running in the first 20 minutes of booting up my laptop. Everything…
