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Desktop - AMD, 24 cores, 32 GB Ram, 2x NVME, 12x spinning rust, 3x 4k monitor - No issues - Debian
Desktop for when at home, laptop otherwise. Both have 4k displays. I seriously overestimated my eyesight when I bought these.
Solid laptop and great for travelling as small and light, thought docked mainly these COVID days.
Thinking of getting something with a bit more grunt next time. I seem to flip between better specs vs light each purchase or 2. Generally I've found lenovo to be most reliable.
I still do local Jupyter stuff on the i9, but... less and less as my clients are happier to have me spin up instances on AWS for dev work. Suits me fine. :)
I go for weeks without turning on my MBP for those few programs that have no Linux equivalents.
Laptop - Asus Q537 - No issues - Debian Desktop - AMD, 24 cores, 32 GB Ram, 2x NVME, 12x spinning rust, 3x 4k monitor - No issues - Debian Desktop for when at home, laptop otherwise. Both have 4k displays. I seriously overestimated my eyesight when I bought these.
Why's that? Not noticing a huge improvement of 1080 or 1440? I could personally live with 1080 forever, but running 4k on a 27in display gives me a little sense of glee with how crisp it is.
All in all I am pretty happy with it. Of course if you can't stand Apple this is not the machine to get, but if you can deal with that it is a good way to get a Unix machine that you don't have to spend too much time setting up and most of time it works.
Other than that my personal laptop is a ThinkPad t440.
I like both, but frankly if the dell had the TrackPoint I'd throw my ThinkPad in the trash can and I would get an exactly equal machine for private use.