I am in the market for a laptop, so I thought I’d ask here for suggestions here.

For context, I am a selling my gaming PC for a laptop as I have largely stopped gaming as I’ve gotten older and am moving around quite a lot in my day-to-day, so having to SSH into my daily driver all the time can get annoying. If I were to have my DREAM laptop, I would like a LOT of disk space as I store a lot of projects locally and plan to dual-booth Windows and Arch Linux (though, I will only use Linux 99% of the time). Additionally, I would like at least one or two USB-A ports, and HDMI out would be very helpful as I am not selling my monitors, but it is not even remotely a requirement as I have my adapters. I would prefer it not be RGB (granted, I can always just not use it), but backlights are quite nice. I need not a dedicated graphics card but I would like good specs otherwise (my budget isn’t a huge concern). I currently use a 65% keyboard and that is my absolute favorite layout. A laptop that uses a 65% keyboard would be a god-send, but my more technical preferences are more important. Lastly, I would like to support a company that encourages/contributes towards Linux/open-source. If they have RGB or other control software that has native Linux support, that would be nice. But I plan to dual-boot so that’s not a huge issue.

  • kitsune8727@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    What kind of specs are you looking for or what projects are you planning to use the laptop for?

    • sannf_@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I am a programmer by day and chronic movie enjoyer by night. My two biggies are RAM and storage. I don’t do much graphics programming as I use C, but I would still like a CPU that can do normal day-to-day stuff without struggling (streaming stuff via the web with Steam and/or Discord running in the background)