12 Years ago I had a Sony Vaio. I quite liked it. Then in my next job, 2017 or so, I went for a Toshiba Portege, and absolutely loved it.

Guess what the above two have in common? Yup, they stopped making laptops for the professional market. So now I’m a bit at a loss. Any recommendations?

Requirements:

  • Lightweight and easy to carry around.
  • 13-15" display, preferably
  • Decent battery life
  • It absolutely must have an RJ45
  • Works well with linux
  • Good keyboard quality
  • ISO keyboard availability
  • Touchpad. Bonus points if it has the touchpad buttons ABOVE the pad itself.
  • Joker@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 months ago

    Framework if you want to repair it yourself and Lenovo if you don’t. Lenovo makes a good machine and has very reasonably priced on-site support options.

        • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
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          8 months ago

          Hobbists and home devs I think.

          Edit if anyone can link an example of a real sized business going with framework I’ll eat a delicious lunch very quickly so I become slightly uncomfortable

          • Manzas@lemdro.idEnglish
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            8 months ago

            Why would a business not like a laptop that they don’t have to replace?

            • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
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              8 months ago

              Because most businesses don’t think like that at all. They don’t want employees taking things apart either.

              ThinkPads and similar are far more popular because they can be bought in large contracts