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The thinkpads. Their product lineup is super confusing. The r/thinkpad wiki is very helpful... https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/wiki/intro https://www.reddit.c
by unknown_error 5y ago
The thinkpads. Their product lineup is super confusing. The r/thinkpad wiki is very helpful... https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/wiki/intro https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/wiki/intro
Also look for promo codes there. Never buy a thinkpad at MSRP, you can usually get them heavily discounted through various promotions (but still add on first party warranty and on site support if you need).
Their hardware quality isn't always the best but their support is good. Last time my screen hinge broke (a early foldable tablet thinkpad) and someone came out the next day to my house in a rural area and fixed it on the spot while I watched.
They're proper business / dev machines with a legacy going back to the IBM days.
Dell Latitude line is a close imitator/competitor also worth considering.
Razer gets you a lot of power but with tradeoffs in heat management and noise. If you don't need a GPU there isn't a good reason to choose them IMO. They are like MacBook wannabes but tailored for gamers.
I'd personally stay away from consumer laptops if I were you.
If I had to pick one, it would be the ThinkPad X1 Carbon.
- echlebek 5y agoStay away from the X1 Extreme lineup though. Mine is terrible and I would stay away from the entire segment.
- unknown_error 5y agoCan you share more details?
- halotrope 5y agoMine is fine after some tweaking. Main problem is heat and battery life. Esp with the higher resolution displays it can get quite toasty and has 3 hours of usable battery. If you don’t need the GPU get the carbon.
- echlebek 5y agoThe touchpad is essentially busted. I get about 1s of lag before the cursor starts moving on every touch. I was hoping that improvements to libinput would resolve this but I'm starting to think it's hopeless. The dGPU is useless with Fedora, my preferred distribution. (nvidia something or other) This isn't Lenovo's fault per se, but an AMD GPU would have Just Worked. The integrated Intel graphics are simply not performant enough to drive the 4K display. Battery life is abysmal. I get less than 2 hours on a full charge. The screen arrived with an obvious defect and Lenovo ignored my complaints about it. The SSD's performance is worse than the one I have in my X1 Carbon, which is older. I find this bizarre and frustrating.
- chx 5y agoHe is using Linux. The problem is not with the machine. My opinion on laptops and Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17656645 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17656645
- unknown_error 5y ago> He is using Linux. The problem is not with the machine. I get it, I got so frustrated with Linux on laptops* -- one literally set my kitchen table on fire and melted the glass when the fan drivers didn't work -- but, to be fair, this thread IS "A good Linux laptop below 1000 euro". I don't think there is going to be a perfect Linux on a laptop experience anywhere. The manufacturer-supported Linux variants might be better (dunno, never tried), or a Chromebook, but short of that it's mostly shared components by a few OEMs anyhow. *Recently bought a Mac, reluctantly, after 30 years of Windows on the desktop and decades of Linux on the server. It's a godsend not having to deal with WSL/Multipass/Docker/Lando etc. just to do some quick dev work AND never having to worry about drivers. The UI is fine, if a bit keyboard-unfriendly compared to Linux and Windows. I don't like Apple as an evil monopolist company, but macOS is admittedly pretty darned nice.
- echlebek 5y agoThe touchpad doesn't work properly on windows either, and the CPU draws a lot of wattage no matter what OS you use. I would bet on most people having a similar experience between the X1 Extreme and the X1 Carbon, but sure, maybe the design has improved too. The fact of the matter is that the X1 Extreme suffers the same disease as many other Intel ultrabooks. It doesn't have sufficient heat dissipation for the processor, or battery capacity to service its power hunger. And it comes with synaptics touch pad.
- chx 5y agoTo the contrary, do not judge an extremely successful great line of laptops based on the experience of a single person. I can't wait for the X1 Extreme Gen 4 later this year and I am set to buy one at Black Friday if it comes at a reasonable price. I would even get the P1G4 if the RTX 3070 version can be had for anything even remotely reasonable but I have a bad suspicion it won't be. (4lbs 16" screen 16:10 resolution, two M.2 drives.)
- geoka9 5y agoMy only peeve with X1 Carbon is the 16 GB RAM limit. Otherwise it's a perfect Linux laptop (for me).
- csunbird 5y agoGot a Thinkpad X1 Carbon today, thank you for the suggestion. I love it!