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What laptop do you use/recommend? (lemmy.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Looking to upgrade from an old Latitude, curious as to what mobile hardware you folks use for writing your open source projects?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Thinkpad A485. If you're going used, I would grab a T460, T470, or T480. Really reliable models, all those can be had for $300 or less online, work great with Linux, and last forever. Plus they are decently repairable.

If new, I would also go with Framework laptops. Super repairable and sustainable. And very high quality laptops. My friend got one and it is super nice. Runs Fedora on it flawlessly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Thinkpad A485

I had one of those, but the trackpad occasionally wouldn't work until I rebooted several times (I was using fedora). Did you run into any similar issue?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Had that happen after BIOS updates. Sending it to sleep and waking it up once always fixed it for me.

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