[ale] Good Laptop for Linux these days

[Jon "maddog" Hall]

Steve,

As I said:

>I probably use laptops in a really weird way,

md

On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 7:50 PM Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Jon "maddog" Hall via Ale said on Thu, 3 Aug 2023 19:18:09 -0400
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I probably use laptops in a really weird way, since I travel so much
> >and I have been stuck without good (or any) Internet connections, etc.
> > Therefore I always had a laptop that I could keep all of my relevant
> > data on it to
> >create presentations, videos, etc.   I have three TB of storage on my
> >laptop.
> >
> >Of course you have to back this up, and with a 3.0 USB port it takes
> >over 18 hours to do that.
>
> I'm not sure what you're backing up to, but if it's a USB3 spinning
> rust disk and you use rsync and cp -al, only the very first backup
> takes 18 hours, with all subsequent backups taking minutes because only
> changed files are transferred.
>
> SteveT
>
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