I don't use a laptop for my actual day job, for all hobby coding is done on a 2016 X1 Carbon. It is durable, light, and was relatively easy to install Linux on.
What laptop are you using for your day to day work and why?
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#228 years old HP Pavilion g6 with 1.9gHz dual core with 2.4gHz boost, overclocked to 3.0gHz. Upgraded to SSD, 8GB RAM and run Chrome off a Ram drive. Windows 10.
It just won't die. I tear it down once a year and clean it. I've started transitioning everything off of it to an Ubuntu VM on a home Proxmox server with a pass-through GPU, provisioned with 4-core 4gHz processing power.
I guess the keyboard on it is what I'm most comfortable with. It's gone through a couple batteries and power bricks, and I keep expecting it to not boot up one day.
If I had to get another laptop, I would probably not make much of the monitor, and plug in my HD TV like I have now. I would probably look for one comparable in size... For the keyboard. Laptops have wonky keyboards sometimes.
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#23Thinkpad w520 because I replaced the cd drive with a second hdd and the original drive with an ssd. It still works like a champ. (i7 2760qm,quadro 1000m,12gb ram). It set up exactly how I like and it's predictable even in failure.
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#24System76 Gazelle because "it just works". Flawless sleeping, good battery life, easily upgradable, but a trackpad that leaves you wanting more.
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#25Dell xps-15 running Windows. I chose it to replace my MacBook pro because it had an Nvidia GPU, a good selection of ports and a great screen. I also use a Lenovo X1 carbon for the small amount of Linux work I do because it works well with Linux without any fuss.
If I was buying a new laptop, I’d look hard at the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Extreme.
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#26I own a macbook air and a custom-built workstation running Debian. The workstation was built almost 7 years ago, remains my primary machine for work, and it continues to provide ample performance. On the other hand, the macbook Air cost as much as the workstation, I never enjoyed using Mac OS, and find myself longing to replace it with one I could run Debian on.
In hindsight, I shouldn't have bought the macbook. There seems to be a second market for used laptops, though, and so I may sell it.
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#27MacBook Pro 2015. Because work gave it to me.
All my desktops are Win10.
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#28Now: X1 Carbon 1st gen. its tough as old boots and light as a feather. sadly its also pretty old now Soon: Undecided, was going to be an x1 extreme until they put the price up by £500 for no reason so itll likely be an xps15 or a 13-14" laptop and an eGPU next
> price up by £500 for no reason
The reason is that it's an "extreme" model. It has a better processor and way better graphics card. You can also still get this year's "non-extreme" X1 Carbon, the 6th generation. That's still the same price.
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#29Dell XPS 13 (9360) with Debian Sid, works flawlessly. Though some initial setup is required: turning off DBC (.exe available at Dell's support site) and using latest ath10k firmware from github. After that it's a laptop of my dreams ) Light, small, 13" screen in a typical 11" laptop chasis. The only drawback is soldered RAM, I have a 8GB version and Angular's reloader leaked memory, so I had to restart it every few hours.
Other than that, I've dropped it from my height on a tiled floor by accident, it landed on a corner. I've unbent screen part with pliers, and fixed cracked hinge with superglue, soda and steel wires, and that was it. Alternative would be to order a part of the chasis, but it would take too long. During the repair I've also weakened hinge resistance a bit, it was too strong for non-touchscreen version; should have done it from the start I guess.
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#30dell latitiude 5491, its a 14" beast running the awesome 8850H processor and it has dramatically improved my productivity, very solid built as any other latitude