My new favorite laptop is my 11" ThinkPad 11e. It cost around US$200, it has 4 cores, 8GB of RAM, and a (small) NVME SSD. The battery lasts a full work/play day

My new favorite laptop is my 11" ThinkPad 11e. It cost around US$200, it has 4 cores, 8GB of RAM, and a (small) NVME SSD. The battery lasts a full work/play day. The screen resolution is satisfactory for its size (1366x768), however I do wish the panel had better viewing angles. On top of that it has 1Gb ethernet, full size HDMI, mini-SD card, USB-C charging, and a great little keyboard. As a longtime "mac person" this capable, but ugly little laptop feels a bit freeing. I don't have to dote over it, worrying about breaking a $2k laptop, I get all the ports I need, and linux just works.