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What are good Linux laptops for 2019?

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Re: What are good Linux laptops for 2019?

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Post by Jaepa »

tristram_shandy wrote: post #19

ThinkPad T480 (with a 1080ti in an external GPU enclosure for gaming at home / ML) 32 GB, 10+ hour battery life, 1Tb of flash storage with OPAL transparent self-encryption, WQHD main display, two USB C ports + two regular USB ports + an ethernet jack, automatic firmware updates through the package manager, and most importantly, no driver issues with the laptop and Linux whatsoever! I replaced my workstation and gamin…

You probably shouldn't use OPAL if you want device encryption.

There was an article published last year that showed that almost all OPAL drives had some security issue that let users bypass(yes I do mean bypass) the encryption. Several instances the PBKD was stored on disk, and a conditional if statement decided to use it

source: https://www.welivesecurity.com/2018/11/15/security-researche...

Re: What are good Linux laptops for 2019?

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Post by tristram_shandy »

itroot wrote: post #60
tristram_shandy wrote: post #19

ThinkPad T480 (with a 1080ti in an external GPU enclosure for gaming at home / ML) 32 GB, 10+ hour battery life, 1Tb of flash storage with OPAL transparent self-encryption, WQHD main display, two USB C ports + two regular USB ports + an ethernet jack, automatic firmware updates through the package manager, and most importantly, no driver issues with the laptop and Linux whatsoever! I replaced my workstation and gamin…

How are you are dealing with all those HiRes problems on linux? Or it's ok now?

I haven't had any HiDPI issues -- the WQHD (2560x1440) display is quite usable at both 100% and 200% scaling.

I've tried laptops with 4K displays and this is a far better experience, basically on par with my rMBP.

It's also matte, my preference as I do a lot of work in coffee houses where I have limited control over lighting.

My external monitors are 4K, and I almost always run them at 200% scaling.

The only fix I had to make was to add a HiDPI flag for Spotify, but that might not even be necessary anymore

No complaints with this setup whatsoever!

Re: What are good Linux laptops for 2019?

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Post by wishinghand »

anonlapwarmer wrote: post #32
tristram_shandy wrote: post #19

ThinkPad T480 (with a 1080ti in an external GPU enclosure for gaming at home / ML) 32 GB, 10+ hour battery life, 1Tb of flash storage with OPAL transparent self-encryption, WQHD main display, two USB C ports + two regular USB ports + an ethernet jack, automatic firmware updates through the package manager, and most importantly, no driver issues with the laptop and Linux whatsoever! I replaced my workstation and gamin…

Just got mine on the Presidents' Day sale. Not Linux rn but as a Hackintosh it's working pretty well apart from SD card reader, not reading fan sensors in iStat Menus / HWMonitor / Mac Fan Control and slow WiFi after sleep. iMessage, FaceTime, most Synaptics gestures working fine. - 20L5 - WQHD - larger extended battery - Quad-core i7-5550U - lighted keyboard - 16 GiB (will upgrade later to 32 or 64 if unofficially-s…

How much of an effort was it to get MacOS in there? Did you follow a tutorial?

Re: What are good Linux laptops for 2019?

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Post by kusha »

tristram_shandy wrote: post #19

ThinkPad T480 (with a 1080ti in an external GPU enclosure for gaming at home / ML) 32 GB, 10+ hour battery life, 1Tb of flash storage with OPAL transparent self-encryption, WQHD main display, two USB C ports + two regular USB ports + an ethernet jack, automatic firmware updates through the package manager, and most importantly, no driver issues with the laptop and Linux whatsoever! I replaced my workstation and gamin…

How is the touchpad in comparison to Mac?

Re: What are good Linux laptops for 2019?

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Post by klohto »

kusha wrote: post #64
tristram_shandy wrote: post #19

ThinkPad T480 (with a 1080ti in an external GPU enclosure for gaming at home / ML) 32 GB, 10+ hour battery life, 1Tb of flash storage with OPAL transparent self-encryption, WQHD main display, two USB C ports + two regular USB ports + an ethernet jack, automatic firmware updates through the package manager, and most importantly, no driver issues with the laptop and Linux whatsoever! I replaced my workstation and gamin…

How is the touchpad in comparison to Mac?

Absolutely awful. I have to work on it, since it's part of standard hardware at Red Hat, and every time my dock stops working I immediately have to connect a mouse because the touchpad is unusable.

Compared to Mac, it doesn't support any gestures, doesn't mitigate the "oops" finger when you're moving your mouse, and altogether just doesn't feel comfortable. I'll try to edit my comment to be more descriptive once I get home because I don't remember in what ways is Mac better since its trackpad is like second nature to me now.

About the dock not working. I'm running RHEL7.6 and the issue is fixed in kernel 4.5+, otherwise Lenovo provides damn great job with their HW. It really has to do with that Red Hat adopted all of their HW for our development purposes.

Re: What are good Linux laptops for 2019?

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Post by klohto »

tristram_shandy wrote: post #19

ThinkPad T480 (with a 1080ti in an external GPU enclosure for gaming at home / ML) 32 GB, 10+ hour battery life, 1Tb of flash storage with OPAL transparent self-encryption, WQHD main display, two USB C ports + two regular USB ports + an ethernet jack, automatic firmware updates through the package manager, and most importantly, no driver issues with the laptop and Linux whatsoever! I replaced my workstation and gamin…

I just wish they didn't make it so thin because the fan starts spinning every time I have to open some electron app...

Re: What are good Linux laptops for 2019?

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Post by yulaow »

Can_Not wrote: post #59

I currently have a Dell XPS 15 (the model before all USB C ports) with 4k screen, nvidia, Intel quadcore. Replaced windows 10 with ubuntu 18.04, so far the best linux laptop experience I've ever had. Brightness keys work. Closing the lid suspends correctly. I probably need to look for a bath script to turn on/off the nvidia card.

Is it problematic to use external monitors under linux with the nvidia dgpu? In a old model I had it was a pita

Re: What are good Linux laptops for 2019?

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Post by Can_Not »

yulaow wrote: post #68
Can_Not wrote: post #59

I currently have a Dell XPS 15 (the model before all USB C ports) with 4k screen, nvidia, Intel quadcore. Replaced windows 10 with ubuntu 18.04, so far the best linux laptop experience I've ever had. Brightness keys work. Closing the lid suspends correctly. I probably need to look for a bath script to turn on/off the nvidia card.

Is it problematic to use external monitors under linux with the nvidia dgpu? In a old model I had it was a pita

Maybe, I'm going to try this: https://www.linuxbabe.com/desktop-linux/switch-intel-nvidia-...
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