Ask HN: What laptop did you go with when moving on from the macbook pro?

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Post by Kpourdeilami » Mon, Apr 01, 2019, 4:00 PM UTC

I have a 2017 macbook pro and it is driving me crazy. The keyboard is broken, the touch bar gets in the way, the screen has gotten loose and wobbles, etc. and I'm considering getting a new laptop

I was wondering what laptop those that ended up moving on from the macbook pro did end up going with?

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Post by knz42 » Mon, Apr 01, 2019, 4:03 PM UTC

I went with the Lenovo Yoga 260.

Motivations:

- all parts replaceable and orderable individually

- real touchpad + 3 physical button

- all the keys on the keyboard

- decent keyboard

- touchscreen + stylus

- multiple USB ports + HDMI + DP outputs

- memory card connector

Re: Ask HN: What laptop did you go with when moving on from the macbook pro?

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Post by bigbit » Mon, Apr 01, 2019, 4:53 PM UTC

Microsoft - Surface Pro – 12.3” Touch-Screen – Intel Core i7 – 16GB Memory - 1TB Solid State Drive, it's a little expensive but you've had a Macbucks disaster proving cost is relative measure anyway.

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Post by cpt1138 » Mon, Apr 01, 2019, 4:53 PM UTC

MacBook Air: right price, good selection of ports, thought the screen would be an issue after 15" MBP (late 2011) but it was good enough, keyboard.

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#5

Post by chrisbennet » Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 1:20 AM UTC

Dell XPS-15. I’ve since gone to a Lenovo X1 Extreme.

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#6

Post by beno696 » Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 2:40 AM UTC

ThinkPad W541. Really love ThinkPads.

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#7

Post by gaspoweredcat » Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 10:54 AM UTC

i personally never had one but when asked for my suggestions i generally suggest something from the thinkpad range, Theyre robust, have an excellent warranty program and great keyboards. which model depends on exactly what you want, the X1C for portability and the X1E or P1 for a larger system with more grunt and onboard GPU, need more power still? the P52 or P72.

if you dont want to go the thinkpad route id start looking at the Dell XPS. Personally im running an X1C 6th gen and a P52s

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Post by willpewitt » Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 12:30 PM UTC

I got a System 76 Oryx Pro. It's not as sexy as the mac but at the time Macbooks could not have 32 GB of ram, which was a major disappointment for me. Pop Os is great, its pretty much for Ubuntu with some tweaks.

Thermals are generally not a issue but sometimes the fans can be a little noisey. And of course due to the very beefy hardware and linux power management not being the most advanced battery life is at most 3 hours in my experience.

But if performance is important I would definitely recommend picking one up.