I'm a college student. I have an Asus laptop which has an i3 processor 500GB HDD and 4GB RAM.
My main purpose is to do college work, studying and programming. I have lots of programming software (like Netbeans, Eclipse, Python, Visual Studio) etc on it which has caused it to run slowly.
So I was thinking about buying a new Windows laptop. A regular Lenovo or HP or Dell Laptop with 256GB SSD, 16GB RAM and i7 processor would cost around $800 to $900. But my friends are recommending me to buy Macbook Pro. I did some research and I like it buy it's way too expensive. The 15" macbook pro with same configuration is like $1900 (almost double than Lenovo).
My friends argue that Macbooks will last longer and that I'll have a better programming experience.
I don't know if it's worth spending the money. What do you guys suggest?