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What laptop minimum specs is needed for mobile app development?

When I try to build the Visual Studio Xamarin project, I really can feel the significant slowness. The current laptop is about 3 - 4 years old now.

What hardware should I invest then? I know that this is quite subjective but I just need some guidelines here.

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look for one that has at least 8 GB Ram, and an mSATA SSD drive to have a nice working speed
you find these on all manufacturers sites : Dell, Lenovo, HP...
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Thanks, I will try to give the spec of my current home laptop to determine shall I upgrade it or buy a new one.
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Please advise if the specs below is good or what things need to be enhanced?

I'm not too sure about the current Harddisk spec for this machine.

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If it's a laptop please post the exact name / model. example:  ASUS ZenBook Pro UX501VW

also I don't recommend to buy a laptop with windows 8/8.1 because you probably will have problems upgrading it to Windows 10.
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you can find the HDD spec in device manager - disks
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I will try get the HDD spec asap.

I think my C Drive is out of space anyway, that could affect the performance, I guess.
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Sorry for late reply.

Iif it's a laptop please post the exact name / model

My laptop model is Asus A45V

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well that's not the complete number  -there are many of this model
what disk model do you have?  you find it in device manager
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Thank you.