Ask HN: Best linux laptop right now?

Post by bradleypowers » Mon, Apr 18, 2016, 9:03 PM UTC

vox_mollis wrote: post #120

bradleypowers wrote: post #17

We use Dell's Precision 15 5000 laptops. We get them with a Xeon E3-1505M and Quadro M1000M, which performs great in what we're doing (simulation, extremely multithreaded sensor processing, etc.). They're not cheap, but if you want "the best", I'd say they're a good candidate.

I was extremely excited reading your comment, given the prospect of a Xeon laptop. According to dell.com, it seems there is no option for ECC ram on this device. The sadness continues...

Post by burgerguyg » Fri, Apr 22, 2016, 5:10 PM UTC

yathern wrote: post #85

jimmies wrote: post #78

I have a Dell Chromebook 13. Basically it is a Macbook Pro that happens to run Linux really well. I have used Thinkpads X (200, 201, 220) in the past, then switched to Chromebook C720, then this. After you install John Lewis' ROM (basically a Coreboot build), it is an absolute dream, and everything worked out of the box, wifi, bt, 3d acceleration, suspend/resume, audio jack detection, you name it. Trackpad is really…

Acer c720 owner here - people tend to mock chromebooks all the time as glorified web browsers. To some extend, that's true. Most things I do that aren't development related are done on a web browser. It's absolutely perfect for that. Starts up extremely quickly, very light, long battery, lovely. For very occasional dev purposes, I simply used crouton, which works insanely well. I can even use sshfs and go back to Chr…