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Moves like this are quickly pushing me away from Macbooks for dev. I need a *nix backend though. Does anyone know what the state of the art for Linux laptops is

Moves like this are quickly pushing me away from Macbooks for dev. I need a *nix backend though. Does anyone know what the state of the art for Linux laptops is?

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Jonnax 10y ago
Dell XPS laptops have a Developer variant that ships with Ubuntu.
- willchang 10y ago
  "currently unavailable" http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd
  - kevinherron 10y ago
    It's not really unavailable: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-9360-laptop/pd http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-9360-laptop/pd Mine arrived last week. It's been great so far.
devereaux 10y ago
Thinkpad W530, i7 3940xm, 32Gb RAM, with a xx20 keyboard. If that's too big, T430.
rastii 10y ago
I recommend system76 laptops: https://system76.com/laptops https://system76.com/laptops
- xmlblog 10y ago
  But why are they so UGLY?
  - SteveNuts 10y ago
    Who cares? I love my lemur. No frills, just a simple laptop.
julochrobak 10y ago
I'd suggest Tuxedo Computers - http://www.tuxedocomputers.com http://www.tuxedocomputers.com I bought the TUXEDO Infinity Book - 13" Full HD screen, 16GB RAM, Intel Core i7-6500U, 1.4 kg only. It works ok, I'm using Suse Linux + Cinnamon Desktop Env. There are two things I'd improve on the laptop: the touchpad could be of a better quality, the Intel Dual AC 3160 wlan does not have the best reception (may be a problem with the antenna?).
matt4077 10y ago
State-of-the-art is: get comfortable compiling a kernel, because you'll need to if you want to get sound. Oh, and when you do get sound, the wireless cuts out. You can get wireless and sound at the same time, but only at 1024x786. Seriously, gif you want to punish Apple by moving to Linux I can understand that. If you actually think it's a gain in productivity, you haven't seen linux on the desktop yet. It's like saying "enough with these kernel exploits! We're moving to macOS on the server!"
- exstudent2 10y ago
  I was asking to get other people's experiences to see if it would be a gain in productivity. Not sure why you're so hostile to that.

Moves like this are quickly pushing me away from Macbooks for dev. I need a *nix backend though. Does anyone know what the state of the art for Linux laptops is?

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Jonnax 10y ago

Dell XPS laptops have a Developer variant that ships with Ubuntu.

willchang 10y ago
"currently unavailable" http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd
- kevinherron 10y ago
  It's not really unavailable: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-9360-laptop/pd http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-9360-laptop/pd Mine arrived last week. It's been great so far.

devereaux 10y ago

Thinkpad W530, i7 3940xm, 32Gb RAM, with a xx20 keyboard. If that's too big, T430.

rastii 10y ago

I recommend system76 laptops: https://system76.com/laptops https://system76.com/laptops

xmlblog 10y ago
But why are they so UGLY?
- SteveNuts 10y ago
  Who cares? I love my lemur. No frills, just a simple laptop.

julochrobak 10y ago

I'd suggest Tuxedo Computers - http://www.tuxedocomputers.com http://www.tuxedocomputers.com I bought the TUXEDO Infinity Book - 13" Full HD screen, 16GB RAM, Intel Core i7-6500U, 1.4 kg only. It works ok, I'm using Suse Linux + Cinnamon Desktop Env. There are two things I'd improve on the laptop: the touchpad could be of a better quality, the Intel Dual AC 3160 wlan does not have the best reception (may be a problem with the antenna?).

matt4077 10y ago

State-of-the-art is: get comfortable compiling a kernel, because you'll need to if you want to get sound. Oh, and when you do get sound, the wireless cuts out. You can get wireless and sound at the same time, but only at 1024x786. Seriously, gif you want to punish Apple by moving to Linux I can understand that. If you actually think it's a gain in productivity, you haven't seen linux on the desktop yet. It's like saying "enough with these kernel exploits! We're moving to macOS on the server!"

exstudent2 10y ago
I was asking to get other people's experiences to see if it would be a gain in productivity. Not sure why you're so hostile to that.