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Re: Ask HN: What‘s the best all-in-one coding/gaming/travel Notebook?

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Post by Mikeb85 »

xdfgh1112 wrote: post #16

I use a ThinkPad T14s after my X1 Carbon fell apart. The thicker chassis makes it more reliable for travel, and the Ryzen CPU can play most Xbox games pass games fine. If you don't need Linux then the new Macs seem pretty amazing though. My all time favourite laptop is the X220 though, lasted 10 years or more. Only got rid of it because I messed up replacing the screen.

Thinkpads are great, miss mine, next one will be a ThinkPad again. I think the thicker chassis is nice; better cooling, more comfortable, allows for nice keyboards.

Re: Ask HN: What‘s the best all-in-one coding/gaming/travel Notebook?

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Post by recvonline »

Mikeb85 wrote: post #20

Do you like Macs? Probably MacBook Pro then. Linux fan? ThinkPad (I like the chunkier ones, so T or P series) IMO. Although any high end offering from Acer, HP or Dell is nice too and all have decent reviews WRT Linux. Windows fan? Probably same. Biggest question though is what kind of gaming? Need discrete card or nah?

Yeah my ideal world would be to be able to play RDR 2 with 60fps on 1440p plus have a decent coding experience (aka UNIX).

So maybe dual boot a decently thin Windows laptop?

Re: Ask HN: What‘s the best all-in-one coding/gaming/travel Notebook?

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Post by rg111 »

t-3 wrote: post #12

Whatever you do, avoid anything new from Dell. The keyboards are incredibly bad, and quality is just lacking. Source: I am the unhappy owner of a several-month old XPS 13.

My cheap Dell laptop went tits up after only 2.5 years of use. It was rendered completely unusable.

I have been avoiding the brand like plague since then, and advised a lot of people to the same.

Re: Ask HN: What‘s the best all-in-one coding/gaming/travel Notebook?

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Post by rg111 »

If are willing to go a little bit high, get anything by Asus. I can vouch for its quality.

If you need a discreet GPU, then Zephyrus or TUF Gaming laptops.

If not, then Vivobooks are fine.

Asus is very reliable in a way that it never dies on you suddenly or gives you rampant problems.

I highly rate Asus laptops right now.

Note: Not in any way affiliated to Asus.

Re: Ask HN: What‘s the best all-in-one coding/gaming/travel Notebook?

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Post by rg111 »

Mikeb85 wrote: post #21
xdfgh1112 wrote: post #16

I use a ThinkPad T14s after my X1 Carbon fell apart. The thicker chassis makes it more reliable for travel, and the Ryzen CPU can play most Xbox games pass games fine. If you don't need Linux then the new Macs seem pretty amazing though. My all time favourite laptop is the X220 though, lasted 10 years or more. Only got rid of it because I messed up replacing the screen.

Thinkpads are great, miss mine, next one will be a ThinkPad again. I think the thicker chassis is nice; better cooling, more comfortable, allows for nice keyboards.

Are TPs still advisable, even the brand being owned by Lenovo now for a long time?

Re: Ask HN: What‘s the best all-in-one coding/gaming/travel Notebook?

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Post by Mikeb85 »

rg111 wrote: post #25
Mikeb85 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thinkpads are great, miss mine, next one will be a ThinkPad again. I think the thicker chassis is nice; better cooling, more comfortable, allows for nice keyboards.

Are TPs still advisable, even the brand being owned by Lenovo now for a long time?

I haven't heard of any spyware or anything being embedded in the hardware or BIOS. Seems like all pretty standard components. All I heard is that there's some Lenovo software/crapware in the Windows installation (don't all vendors do that though?). Haven't heard of any concerns running Linux on Thinkpads, could be wrong though.

Re: Ask HN: What‘s the best all-in-one coding/gaming/travel Notebook?

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Post by Mikeb85 »

recvonline wrote: post #22
Mikeb85 wrote: post #20

Do you like Macs? Probably MacBook Pro then. Linux fan? ThinkPad (I like the chunkier ones, so T or P series) IMO. Although any high end offering from Acer, HP or Dell is nice too and all have decent reviews WRT Linux. Windows fan? Probably same. Biggest question though is what kind of gaming? Need discrete card or nah?

Yeah my ideal world would be to be able to play RDR 2 with 60fps on 1440p plus have a decent coding experience (aka UNIX). So maybe dual boot a decently thin Windows laptop?

Yeah would probably just get an Acer gaming machine, ThinkPad P series or Dell XPS with discrete graphics. All work well with Linux, all have a decent amount of options, nice screens, etc...

Re: Ask HN: What‘s the best all-in-one coding/gaming/travel Notebook?

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Post by archivisti »

srivathsaharish wrote: post #3

Asus zephyrus 14 latest edition with AMD Ryzen, definitely worth it, not even as costly as others

+1, good combination of lightweight (for travel) and high performance (for game or for work) but can get quite hot sometimes. Plus for OS would recommend Pop OS with dual boot. no issues with Nvidia in 20.04 and works out of the box.

Re: Ask HN: What‘s the best all-in-one coding/gaming/travel Notebook?

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Post by redisman »

recvonline wrote: post #22
Mikeb85 wrote: post #20

Do you like Macs? Probably MacBook Pro then. Linux fan? ThinkPad (I like the chunkier ones, so T or P series) IMO. Although any high end offering from Acer, HP or Dell is nice too and all have decent reviews WRT Linux. Windows fan? Probably same. Biggest question though is what kind of gaming? Need discrete card or nah?

Yeah my ideal world would be to be able to play RDR 2 with 60fps on 1440p plus have a decent coding experience (aka UNIX). So maybe dual boot a decently thin Windows laptop?

You’ll need something with a Nvidia 20 or 30 series GPU(or AMD equivalent). Anything with integrated graphics will barely be able to run RDR2 at 1440p 10FPS
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