If I were to buy a new laptop, where do I find one that is very well built and has most of the things on my list? Out of curiosity....
My list:
- fully metal, no plastic
- 17inch screen
- backlit keyboard
- very good CPU
- decent GPU (I prefer AMD)
- easy to take apart, change stuff, upgrade - if it takes me me more than 2 screws and 1 minute to replace the RAM or the Drive, it is not a good laptop
- FullHD screen (no less, no more)
- ok battery life, but I care more if I can easily replace it without any screws involved
- not super expensive
Not that I want to buy now, but maybe I'd like to in the future, and replace my plastic laptop that has a shitty Nvidia card (not working well on Linux).
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in reply to Tio • •tuxedocomputers.com/en provides very solid models I heard a lot of good things of. Laptops are with aluminium/magnesium chassis and good possibilities in repairing and swapping components (even without losing warranty).
They have not that good 17-inch options, but 16-inch are not that different from 17 and have expanded screen in a formfactor of 15,6-inch with full numpad keyboard, it's quite a good alternative too.
What I've noticed though that it might be a problematic to find a laptop with decent AMD GPU card, since the most manufacturers still prefer Intel+NVIDIA combinations. To be honest AMD is kinda resposible for that by themselves since they did not provide a relevant mobile GPU for years. There's Radeon RX 6000M series which looks very promising, but we should wait for a year or two before it will be adopted, I hope (it was released only last year). Though to be mentioned Tuxedo is promoting themselves as designed with Linux in mind and they sell laptops with it preinst
... Show more...tuxedocomputers.com/en provides very solid models I heard a lot of good things of. Laptops are with aluminium/magnesium chassis and good possibilities in repairing and swapping components (even without losing warranty).
They have not that good 17-inch options, but 16-inch are not that different from 17 and have expanded screen in a formfactor of 15,6-inch with full numpad keyboard, it's quite a good alternative too.
What I've noticed though that it might be a problematic to find a laptop with decent AMD GPU card, since the most manufacturers still prefer Intel+NVIDIA combinations. To be honest AMD is kinda resposible for that by themselves since they did not provide a relevant mobile GPU for years. There's Radeon RX 6000M series which looks very promising, but we should wait for a year or two before it will be adopted, I hope (it was released only last year). Though to be mentioned Tuxedo is promoting themselves as designed with Linux in mind and they sell laptops with it preinstalled, so the recent NVIDIA RTX 3000M series cards might be not so bad overall now and may work well under Linux too.
Other manufacturers I keep looking at (all are Linux friendly):
system76.com/
starlabs.systems/
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in reply to Roma • •AH yess Tuxedo. I forgot about them. Thanks a bunch. Quite expensive tho but I guess that's how much they cost. I think @Aaron has a Tuxedo. Aaron, right? Am also unsure if they are fully metal or some parts, like the front frame of the display may be plastic...
Thanks for those too!
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