<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">Hi,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">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.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">Of course you have to back this up, and with a 3.0 USB port it takes over 18 hours to do that. So my next laptop will have USB 4.0, waiting for devices to catch up, or doing parallel backups of different datasets to different devices. USB 4.x will be a driver.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">Of course I am also have NAS set up and can do backups almost continually over the network, but when I do not have that network (or a poor one) I will still have my data with me. 3 TB or 4TB on my laptop? Nah. One Western Digital M.2 SSD will hold 4 TB for 269 dollars.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">Networking would be the next issue, but if the built in networking is not good enough, a docking station or dongle going out through the USB 4.x will provide that.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">All of the other issues mentioned here (Screen size, CPU power, etc.) are good and depends on how much you want to pay. Replace a battery in a laptop? Something you do every three or four years, let the pros do it.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">I usually buy "top of the line", then let the line get a little crufty. My current Lenovo W510 "workstation" laptop is a heavy, powerhungry beast that started out with 16GB of RAM (and still has that) with 500 GB of HDD (now 1 TB of Hybrid SSD/HDD and 2 TB of HDD) but had an option added of two 3.0 USB Type A sockets that made it "last longer. It has four cores with eight Virtual cores that does much of what I want it to do. I have replaced the keyboard three times myself (the oils in my fingers eat through the keycaps for a total of 100 USD for all three. I have replaced the batteries a couple of times (of course they are external).<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">I have an external DVD, external floppy disk reader, portable scanner all of which would work fine with the next system.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">I also have a Lenovo X1 fifth gen laptop that is light, with two cores and four hypercores, but "only" 1TB and "Thuderbolt 3" connector. I have ordered that 4TB M.2 connector. This may replace my W510 simply because the X1 is so light and so much easier on battery. I will probably be using that on my trips this year, and leave the beast behind.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">On the other hand I was looking at the Lenovo web site and configured a new, thin laptop with 64 GB of RAM, two USB 4.0 ports, 4TB of NVMe storage<b> </b>a 15" screen and the latest in WiFi, Bluetooth, HDMI, etc.and a kick-butt CPU which I swear had 20 real cores running at some insane frequency. Fully configured as a monster laptop it came in at less than 5K USD and would probably last me for the rest of my life, or at least until I was senile (if I am not already there).<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">Of course YMMV.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">md<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 8:29 PM Bob Toxen via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">All,<br>
<br>
What would be a good laptop for Linux these days?<br>
<br>
I've had good luck in the past with Lenovo and Toshiba. However, with<br>
my most recent Lenovo it was impossibly difficult to replace the battery.<br>
<br>
I'm not a gamer (or a password cracker) so I don't need lots of CPU power.<br>
<br>
I do need WiFi, good size disk (or solid state), DVD burner, and<br>
ability to watch movie DVDs, good keyboard action, and good size screen.<br>
I'll have a trackball so touchpad/touchstick not too important if it<br>
isn't in the way.<br>
<br>
All thumbs up or down greatly appreciated.<br>
<br>
THANKS!<br>
Bob<br>
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