ThinkPad P1 Gen 8

Skip all the hype brands. Durable laptops with good Linux support are made by only 3 companies: Dell, Lenovo and HP. Discard all other options. Imo the absolute best laptop you can buy right now is the Dell Pro Max 16 Premium. See this video. Skip the GPU as always unless you really need it. Worthy

Like, ThinkPads don't normally go bad, but it is a pain in the ass when they go. I had a P15 Gen 1, which as flawless. Sold and god an P1 Gen 2 with the 4k screen, and problems were constant. Battery life, was mediocre but that was the 4k OLED fault, but the major problem came in a way of BIOS updat

Lenovo has made such a model line with the Z13 and Z16, which were high-end AMD models. Unfortunately, they did not sell well, so Lenovo discontinued them. Intel is paying a lot of money to support Lenovo in the development of the X1/P1 line, so naturally, these models are Intel exclusive. AMD did t

Look at Lenovo yoga. Small, light, reasonably powerful. The graphics isn’t as good, but good enough. I’ve had one at work for a travel computer and can do cad on it. Microsoft surface isn’t horrible either. I’m a ME, and use a dell precision 7560 daily. Catia, MRP software development (api’s, custom

It means it will be supported, so if you have an issue with the software you will be able to get support from the software vendor. If you run unsupported hardware and have issues then you cannot get support. You will also get more reliable performance. If you don't care about support, then the 3080

I'm very happy with my P1 Gen 4 running Fedora GNOME. That being said, I paid less than 700$CA for an i7-118550H, RTX A2000 Mobile, 1x16Gb RAM and a 512Gb SSD. If you can just go with the MacBook Pro, I'd advise doing that (and saving money while you're at it). If you have to run x86-64 Linux and Wi

This was already mentioned but if you haven't yet, search for the hardware maintenance manual for the models you're looking at. Some of this should be in the user manual, e.g. you can see the list of customer replaceable units (IBMese for user replacement parts) and the instruction for that in the m

A Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 should be plenty. I bought one from Lenovo, upgraded ram and hard drive to the max. I trade from it daily. When I’m in my office, it’s connected to a docking station that’s connected to a 32 inch curved 4k and backup storage connected to the docking station. They have an o

Dell Pro Max as they call it these days. I would also add P1 Gen 8 or any of the older P1 ThinkPads

Screw the MacBook, go for the ThinkPad. MacOS updates are always a f*cking mess with any 3rd party tools/apps - especially Python (brew-installed) versions. I've always been biased against Apple products since they make repairs unnecessarily difficult and costly. Steve Jobs was a hacker and a modder