Dell Inspiron running Win10. It's about 6 years old now. Only change was a RAM and SSD upgrade.
Kinda heavy: I bought it mainly because it has a 17" screen, but in hindsight that was not a great idea.
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#32Macbook Pro (16 inch, 2019, 2.4 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9, 32 GB RAM) at work.
Custom-built desktop (AMD Ryzen 7 2700x 8-Core x 16, 32 GB RAM) running Ubuntu for personal use
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#33Macbook Pro for work, since it's provided by my employer.
frame.work with Ubuntu for personal. I keep thinking of switching to Mint or something else but switching to a new OS is such a hassle.
I also run Mint on an old Asus gaming laptop as a jellyfin server.
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#34After 13 years on MacBooks, in 2021 I've switched to ThinkPad T14s AMD (1st gen) and I love it.
Don't get me wrong, Macs are still very good and reliable machines, but I missed the possibility to run a very minimalistic and very tailored for me OS (especially in terms of GUI choice). Previously, before 'Mac era', I was using FreeBSD, then Gentoo - but now, after 13 years I decided I will use a binary distribution for a while, so I've chosen Void Linux. Now I'm back on Gentoo, but sometimes I think I would like to return to Void - I'm too old and too impatient to compile everything ;-)
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#35Asus TUF series (A15). Inexpensive with really good hardware specs and upgradable ram, storage and wifi cards. I usually go AMD on them, and midrange video cards. They're shockingly good as desktop replacements but they suffer a bit on battery life. My 4900H/RTX2060 feels snappier than my work M1 Pro in everything I do and it can play pretty much every modern game smoothly.
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#361. for development: Samsung Galaxy Book Pro (13.3-inch AMOLED, 8GB, i5) with Void Linux
2. mostly for office related stuff & browsing: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, early 2013, 8GB, i7) with macOS High Sierra
The Galaxy Book Pro is ultralight and thin, perfectly portable. The Mac Book is super durable and reliable.
Although I own a few other (bigger) laptops, I like those two the most.
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#37Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga Gen. 6 with Fedora and Windows 10 Pro.
However, Thinkpads are not what they used to be and always come with some tiny, but annoying issues. For example fingerprint reader is terrible, there are some minor date/time issues between Linux and Windows (partially fixed with BIOS update), etc.
I hope to keep the laptop for a few more years, but if I had to buy now I would consider one of the two:
* TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 - Gen7 (https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-InfinityBook-Pro-1...)
* Framework laptop
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#38I'm more comfortable with the Windows OS. But why is there not a single competitor to Mac in terms of build quality??
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#39Entroware Apollo (UK company) delivered with Ubuntu 20.04.
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#40Ubuntu on a Thinkpad X13 with AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U.
Everything works: Bluetooth, fingerprint reader, webcam, suspend etc. Battery life is good: more than seven hours. I'm very happy overall.