I’m in the market for a new laptop. Preferably under $2000 and have good specs. 16 GB ram minimum and 500 GB SSD minimum. What recommendations does Lemmy have? If more details are needed please specify what and I’ll answer

EDIT: thank you everyone for the answers 🙂 I do not need anymore suggestions

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    1 year ago

    What are you going to use it for? You have to give us more details, a vague question will lead to generic answers that will probably not be the best choice for you.

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    1 year ago

    Lenovo Thinkpad T14s AMD. Runs Linux perfectly, is fast, has a great keyboard, has a great trackpoint, and has good battery life.

    If it doesn’t run Linux, I don’t buy the laptop.

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    1 year ago

    $2000 should get you something pretty nice. Do you have anything specific in mind that you’re planning to do with it? Important stuff to keep in mind up front, in no particular order: do you play games? How big should the screen be? How long do you want to use it on battery? Any operating system preferences?

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      1 year ago

      Hi thanks for the questions. I plan to just generally use for browsing the web, watching YouTube and of course Lemmy lol. I’d also like to use it for school work and coding. I was hoping to play some games on it yes. The screen should be around 13" as I’ll be carrying it out a lot and need it to be portable. Above that its too big for me. I’d like a pretty good battery life around 7+ hour, enough to last an average day of use. No preferences on operating systems but I’ve only ever used windows and a tiny bit of Linux.

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        1 year ago

        If your gaming is eSports, your battery life would benefit from an AMD iGPU rather than an NVIDIA GPU.

        7840U for the CPU which is integrated graphics.

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    1 year ago

    I’m a Mac guy so my goto answer would always be something from Apple. If I was looking for non-apple hardware though I would look at Framework laptops because lack of upgradability is my biggest peeve about Apple gear.

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      1 year ago

      I’m eyeing the M1/M2 macs with asahi, but I’m going to let it mature more for a bit before I take the plunge.

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          The distro (asahi) is still in very early development, gpu acceleration was just recently added. That along with a esoteric architecture, will cause headaches for the uninitiated.

          The macs themselves hardware wise are quite mature, but I can’t for the life of me use MacOS.

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    The Asus ROG Flow X13 is super portable and decent for gaming! I have the 2021 3050ti version but I’d recommend getting one with more than 4gb VRAM if you can swing it 😅 it really depends on what you want out of a laptop as to what people will suggest

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    There’s no way to answer that question without knowing what you want to do with your laptop.

    If you want anything but gaming, go for a Mac, especially if you are a musician (every Mac comes with GarageBand, is silent and has crazy battery life). You’ll also find the iWork suite installed for office work. No hidden cost.

    For photo editing, built-in Photos app gives a good alternative to Lightroom.

    For more advanced stuff you can also buy Affinity Photos or Pixelmator Pro, which are great alternatives to Photoshop, without the cost and the weight on the system

    Little built-in apps like Reminders and Notes can be life-changer if you’re in GTD stuff.

    The feature that impressed me the most back in the day was preview. Select any file and press the space bar. You’ll get instant preview (whatever the file is) without launching an app.

    If you want to game, it depends on the games you play.

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    I had a similar issue recently and ended up going for a HP Pavilion. It’s a versatile machine, you can do pretty much anything on it, it’s in a metal case so sturdy to carry about, and you can get a bigger screen so you can multitask. I feel like you get quite a bit of laptop for your money.

    I was also considering a macbook, I use them for work a lot so I’m used to them, but I felt like specs wise I was looking at lower specs and a lot more money.

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    Not much to go on , but my next will be apple. All previous hp elite and thinkpads. This since you now can run Linux properly on them.