New laptop

Hi everyone!

I need to buy a new laptop to replace my 12 years old laptop. I didn’t look after hardware for a while for some personal reasons.

I will buy something new. My needs are:

  • photo editing
  • video editing
  • vector graphics editing/creation
  • good battery life (I don’t want to worry about)
  • web navigating, docs, spreadsheets
  • USB-C charging would be nice

I don’t game, and Framework isn’t available where I live.

I would be happy to have some recommendation on what is a good hardware for this use and good brand.

Thanks!

GentooIsBased,

Just get a thinkpad.

tobiah,

Easy choice. Takes out the guesswork.

GentooIsBased,

Yeah, Thinkpad’s are at the end of the IQ curve.

kzhe,

Which one?

electric_nan,

Any T or P series with the minimum specs you’re lokkung for. Tons on eBay.

Fredol,

Dell XPS or Latitude or Precision, ThinkPad P or X, Framework, LG Gram, System76 and other linux-focused manufacturers, Asus Vivobook

possiblylinux127,

Where do you live and what’s your budget?

moitoi,
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Budget isn’t a real issue with 2.5k. I can go a little higher.

java,

good battery life (I don’t want to worry about)

Define good battery life.

moitoi,
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I’m fine with several hours of use. 6 hours would be great. The second point is to no worry about having no battery when I take out of my backpack. The second point is also depending on the OS. With all I read and people, I would look for 94Wh at least.

Pantherina,

Gaming is not important if you do video editing. Hardware doesnt need to be very powerful if you dont do 4K or something, which tbh is not needed.

I would say look for a Clevo NV41 laptop as they are supported with Coreboot by 3mdeb, Novacustom, System76, Nitrokey etc. But flashing coreboot requires some knowledge and a hardware programmer.

I cant recommend other brands really. Thinkpads are just a name, good Linux support but their support is nonexistent if you dont pay, and the software updates are not long.

You may want AMD graphics, but I have had bad experience with amd mobile CPUs.

You will want to use

  • tlp
  • system76-scheduler (or this power management thing)
  • autocpufreq

Either one of these.

As a Distro I highly recommend ublue.it they are supporting many models with custom setups like Razer etc, but also main (intel, amd, no extras) or nvidia (proprietary drivers).

Especially if you go with an NVIDIA card, which has advantages, I recommend the system76 tool for switching between internal GPU and dedicated one. And I also recommend only ublue’s *-nvidia images, as you can rollback if an update with the drivers breaks something.

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