I have several different laptops. Current main (the unit I'm typing this on) is Linux Mint 20.2 based, AMD Zen2 8c/16t, 64GB ram, 3TB NVME, Renior (AMD) and 16

I have several different laptops. Current main (the unit I'm typing this on) is Linux Mint 20.2 based, AMD Zen2 8c/16t, 64GB ram, 3TB NVME, Renior (AMD) and 1660Ti (NVidia) based. HP Omen 15 2020 edition. I get about 3-4 hours of battery life (meh), with iGPU (AMD). Very light. Good keyboard, and trackpad. Everything works under linux, though sometimes the BT vanishes (I think I need to reseat that, but I was lazy and installed a $10 USB BT5.1 adapter). I do heavy development/builds/testing on it. I run windows in a kvm instance window if I need it (less than once per quarter at this point). Came w/o OS. Bought it on Amazon late 2020 for about $1850 or so. The laptop it replaced (though still alive) is a Sager 4c/8t Intel with GTX 1060 ish dGPU, Intel iGPU, 64 GB ram, and 1.5 TB SSD. Very capable machine, though battery life is abysmal. Maybe an hour. Its my current living room machine. Came pre-installed with Windows, but I installed 2 SSDs, and bumped the memory from 16GB to 64GB. Reworked the boot and virtualized windows (windows should never touch physin government's Federal Ministry of Education and Research.cal hardware). Bought in 2018 for about $2200. It is heavy, bulky, good workhorse, but older Intel CPU. I also have a Sager I bought in 2010. Still works, 16GB ram, 4c/8t, 500GB SSD, GTX 560m graphics. Its my basement lab machine. All 3 run Linux Mint 20.2. All function well (even the old machine). I expect I won't need to replace the new machine for quite some time. That said, work laptop is finally a Mac, having been stuck on horrible Windows machines from Dell. Had many driver/OS problems with windows, machines crashed regularly. BSOD and others. Newer M1 Pro now. Far more stable than windows, almost ... almost as good a UX as linux. CPUs are fast, though even with Homebrew, I can't build everything. This one ran the company about $3500 or so. YMMV, but the HP Omen series is nice.