"After that experience I switched to owning pairs of slightly older/cheaper laptops, so I always have a spare on hand."
That's what I do, too, with X series Thinkpads, currently just on the X260 but my needs are minimal. On Sun, Jan 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM Jonathan Thornburg <dr.j.thornb...@gmail.com> wrote: > In <https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=173604207306423&w=1>, > Courtney Hicks wrote: > > I'm looking at replacing my current laptop, so I wanted to see what's > good > > that other people are using. > > Since so many attributes of a laptop are mutually exclusive, the answers > to "what's a good laptop" depend greatly on what you want. E.g.: > * what size screen do you want? > * do you want/need a 4K screen? > * how much CPU power do you want/need? > * how much memory do you want/need? > * does an "embedded" GPU suffice for you, or do you want/need a more > powerful "discrete" GPU; for the latter, how much performance do you > want/need? > * do you want/need very long battery life? > * what I/O ports do you want/need? > * how much weight can you tolerate? > * do you want lots of expandability and user servicibility, > or are soldered-in components (e.g., memory, SSD) ok? > * for high-performance laptops: do you want/need ECC memory and/or > slots for multiple SSDs? > * for larger laptops: do you want/need a separate numeric keypad on > the keyboard? > > Many of these attributes can be traded off amongst each other (and > against cost), so it would be useful to know a bit more about which > attributes are important for you, and which attributes you're ok with > sacrificing. > > And finally, Murphys's law applies to laptops: they break, often at > quite inconvenient times. The worst OpenBSD laptop I've ever owned > was the one I had to buy (around 2008) at a small-town big-box retailer > in a snowstorm the night before I was flying to a foreign country, after > my previous laptop died 2 days earlier. After that experience I switched > to owning pairs of slightly older/cheaper laptops, so I always have a > spare on hand. > > -- > -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -color to reply]" < > dr.j.thornb...@gmail-pink.com> > currently on the west coast of Canada > "[I'm] Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. > Some crypto projects are pump and dump schemes, while others are > pyramid > schemes. Others are just standard issue fraud. Others are just > middlemen > skimming off the top. Stop glossing over the diversity in the > industry." > -- Pat Dennis, 2022-04-25 > >
