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by wink 455 days ago
Kinda depends. My first own laptop was 15.4" brick - but I didn't constantly move it around, just randomly to uni 2-3 times a week.

My work laptops have generally been 14" and it's fine with external monitors (current is a 16" mac because it was there), and I hate carrying it to the office because my panniers are too small.

My favourite on-the-go laptop was the x230 with the smaller battery and if I bought a laptop for traveling today (I used to back up my photos from SD to a laptop every night) I'd prefer the smallest and lightest 11"-13" again. Maybe I'll grab a 2016 Intel macbook and put linux on it, or buy a used x290 or something if I feel I need one.

That said, I am not a laptop person at all, I have a workstation at home and only use hand-me-down laptops for the sofa and surfing the web and stuff.