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Looking for a new laptop (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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As I mentioned in My other post, my laptop broke and I am searching for a new one. The people in my comments said that the thinkpads aren't really good for gaming, so I'm looking at the lenovo legions but I am curious if there is other laptops that are good.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Framework 16?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Have you checked out system76? Between them and Dell it's easier to find builds that work great on Linux out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I looked and they look like they may work for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Oh cool, I'm looking at getting a legion too. Thinking of moving soon and it will come in handy. If you get one, please share your thoughts about it.

And yeah if you get a non-gaming laptop just look out for whether or not the build is limiting the amount of power the GPU can use and if it has a mux switch. I'm not sure on all the details of those things but with gaming laptops you don't have to worry about that stuff, whereas on studio /creator laptops you do before purchasing if your intent is to play games.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I have a legion that I used for some development. It's not terrible. Keyboard is worse than thonkpad but not that much worse. I use an external keyboard anyway. I set it up to use only the discrete GPU as I don't really take it out and about and setting up the automatic switching is a little painful. Doesn't bend where it shouldn't for the most part, thermals are OK.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The new framework has an amd gpu in them which would be nice for linux