I'm looking for a laptop with:
1. 1080p screen
2. 5+ hours of battery life
3. A keyboard that's nice to type on
I don't care if it's made of wood and painted with rainbows and superheroes, but for the life of me I just cannot find a straightforward laptop for programming. I don't care about gaming, I don't care about hard disk size beyond about 120GB. It just has to be "fast enough" with a nice long battery, good screen, and a keyboard that doesn't make me hate typing.
Why must it be so hard to find a site that lets me filter on resolution instead of screen size? Why do all the reviews I find online talk about the "finish" of the laptop, or the way it looks? Why can't I find any reviews from professionals?
Btw, there's a project for you: detailed collection of data about different products, similar to [0]PcPartPicker, but for things like laptops, or cars, or whatever.
I actually have no huge OS preference, but I use a MacBook because it's literally the only thing on the market right now that fulfills those three criteria (I also have a fourth: <5 lbs) and reliably performs for longer than a year.
Lenovo's keeping up to some extent (I loved the X220 and X230, but the X240 is no longer competitive. Like others here have mentioned, the T440s is pretty nice, but the trackpad is clunky), but HP, Dell, Toshiba, Sony, and everyone else seem to have completely forgotten about the business laptop market. What happened, laptop manufacturers?