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It's time to ditch Windows for good, since 7 was the last marginally acceptable version.

Looking at a Lenovo Ideapad 5 with the AMD CPU and discrete graphics, since I don't do a lot of gaming and I need battery vs GPU horsepower. It looks like this is a fairly happy with Linux machine, any thoughts?

It's time to ditch Windows for good, since 7 was the last marginally acceptable version. Looking at a Lenovo Ideapad 5 with the AMD CPU and discrete graphics, since I don't do a lot of gaming and I need battery vs GPU horsepower. It looks like this is a fairly happy with Linux machine, any thoughts?

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[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

I bought a refurb thinkpad from MC about 8 years ago or so that handled Linux like a champ but I'm not sure I'd buy another lenovo product again. Mainly due to it being a chinese owned company but that's just my preference though. The ideapad should suit you just fine.

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They're all made in China, so it's just a matter of having a Chinese nameplate or not. My current one may have a faulty power adapter, so I've ordered a new one to give it a try.

I have a Lenovo 3000 N200 (The one "First Day on the Internet" kid is using) and it will work, it's just even with being upgraded as far as it will go with RAM and CPU, the modern web makes the thing crawl.

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True about Chinese manufacturing but there is a difference between owned and not. I may give Toshiba/dynabook a shot once my current HPs die.

Yikes, yeah it looks like that n200 would be a bit of a slug today and I bet the battery life is next to atrocious.

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I popped it's specs up as far as they would go. A Core2Duo from an old Acer, 4GB of RAM, and a SSD.

It's ok if you're doing email, messaging, and office, it's a great travel just need to stay in touch machine. Anything else and it's not having it. Kind of the reason I don't want to go with an older machine regardless of it's compatibilities - those are already on their last legs as far as web browsing and stuff goes.

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I got a couple of old Thinkpads and did some upgrades on them. T440P and a X230. Look into the older Thinkpads....

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I'm not really looking to replace a 5 year old device with a 10 year old device right now, but it's always an option I guess.

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Framework

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They seem to be more Windows oriented, meaning it's going to have secure boot and all that MS shit.

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Hey stupidbird, 0k says

Starlite https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/laptops buy you won't read this since you blocked me like a faggot... FAGGOT

Lmao I thought it was funny but also idk it may be a good suggestion I don't laptop. If it's good you can thank me if it's stupid you can laugh and blame 0k.

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Blocked for a reason. No, I'm not willing to discuss that reason, but it's there.

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Nah there is a DIY version meant for Linux I think

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Hmm, ok. Probably cheaper that System76 and their "Nice, but every one of them has typical Clevo problems" machines.

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If you have the money and it interests you, Framework (and yes, they do linux ~ https://frame.work/linux )

Past that, spend the money on an enterprise level laptop if you're going to buy one. I've only bought 2 laptops in the past ~12 years, an HP Elitebook and a Lenovo P51 ~ both were WAY overkill when I bought them, and the HP outlasted 3 laptops for my wife (consumer grade shit) while outperforming all of them. I found the same to be true when I was working IT, any dept. that tried to "save" money on lower cost/comsumer level computers suffered more component turn-over and ultimately more money spent. Anyway, it finally just couldn't keep up with my demands as I got more into photo and video editing. Enterprise level stuff is also more designed with fixability in mind, you can actually upgrade and/or replace common parts without much fuss to keep the machines going.

Anyway, my Lenovo p51 is very happy with Manjaro/linux. Everything works as it should and it's more or less an invisible OS if you want it to be.

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I have an HP Probook right now, I love the laptop but I had to go through 3 to get one that worked.

I have suspicion that the power adapter might be the culprit, I've ordered a new (actual HP branded) unit from fleebay to see if that fixes it.

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Have you looked into the puri.sm laptops? https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/   Thoughts

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My problem is I'm looking for a middle of the road device that's got some oomph but not too much. I'm mostly doing stuff online, or SSH'd into one of my machines, or doing some aurduino work, or watching something. I can't justify spending $1500 on an overpowered machine like that....

Although it was funny that the build I set up was $1488.00....